‘Shame and surveillance’We have no idea because our data collection on abortion is a travesty. The IFPA figures show there was a 10 per cent failure rate for abortion pills, leading to repeat prescriptions. In one-third of these cases, they were referred to hospitals because they were beyond the legal gestational age for no-hospital abortion. Media blind eyeCarol Nolan also discovered that, in 2019, €2.9 million was paid in fees to all no-hospital providers of abortion. To put that in context, the entire budget for the National Women and Infants Health Programme in 2019 was €3.1 million.

Source: The Irish Times November 28, 2020 02:00 UTC