100 women of 2024: Dr Mary Favier and Dr Trish Horgan believe 'women are getting a world class service'

100 women of 2024: Dr Mary Favier and Dr Trisha Horgan are co-founders of START (Southern Task-Force On Abortion & Reproductive Topics), and played a pivotal role in the rollout of abortion services in Ireland 

Cork GPs Dr Mary Favier (left) of Parklands surgery, Commons Road and Dr Trish Horgan of Broadlane practice Blackpool. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

Women in Ireland take it for granted today that terminations are available through hundreds of GPs; local, accessible and comforting at a difficult time.

But there was a moment when things could have been different, when the plan could have seen a few large clinics instead and maybe only in cities. Some GPs, many Cork-based, stepped into that uncertainty with a vision for something different.