Irish pain over abortion law – case studies

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/06/irish-pain-abortion-law-case-studies


Arlette Lyons (34), Ruth Bowie (34), and Amanda Mellet (38) all had to travel to the UK to have abortions when discovered the babies they were carrying would not survive. Photograph: Kim Haughton

Already grieving from the knowledge that her baby would be born dead, Arlette Lyons, a 34-year-old sales representative from Dublin and her husband were stunned to find they would have to take a plane to England to end her pregnancy.

"Thinking of my other two children, the family, my baby, to carry on for another 28 weeks was inconceivable. I would have had to lock myself away, telling the kids would have been horrific so carrying on with the baby never was going to be an option for us.

"We had the termination in March and I suppose I couldn't believe that we had to leave our friends and family, and the treatment in our own maternity hospital was so fabulous, to leave all that support from everybody behind who were looked after us, I was just horrified.

"The world needs to know that this is happening in Ireland in 2012 and it has to stop."

Ruth Bowie, a 34-year-old paediatric nurse living in Dublin, got pregnant in 2009 shortly after she married. Her 12-week scan detected that a large portion of the baby's skull and brain was missing and that it would ultimately not survive. Thirteen weeks into her pregnancy Ruth and her husband flew to Birmingham for the termination.

[HopeHoops]

1. Coming soon to a state near you.

I can't fathom how so-called "Christians" can want to subject women to this. It's torture and nothing less.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R