Agency helps Irish women arrange abortions over the phone

A BRITISH-based sexual health service is allowing Irish women to arrange an abortion over the phone.

Current legislation means counselling services here cannot give information in relation to abortion unless in a private face-to- face interview, and even then only limited advice is permitted.

But Marie Stopes International (MSI), a British provider of sexual and reproductive healthcare services, said that as the phone number is a British one, and call centre is based in Britain, it falls outside Ireland’s jurisdiction.