DAN BUCKLEY: Women tell abortion stories as they urge No More Shame

“There are many different reasons why a woman would need to have a pregnancy terminated,” says Claire. “I never thought I would be a woman to have a reason to do so, but I was.”

Claire’s story of how she came to have an abortion is not typical of the thousands of Irish woman who travel to Britain each year for terminations.

Yet her experience mirrors the heartache of women who endure crisis pregnancies and feel blighted by the choices available to them here.