LISTEN: ‘I might as well have been in a forest on my own’ during abortion

Isobel was told at CUMH that her baby would either die in the womb or an hour after being born. She decided to go to England for a termination but was appalled by the service and her treatment there, writes Alison O’Connor

ISOBEL* remembers being ecstatic when she discovered she was pregnant with her second child.

She remembers travelling to the Cork University Maternity Hospital for the 12-week scan and just wanting to hear that “little flicker of a heartbeat”.