Abortion laws: Doctors play ‘roulette’ with lives

Rhona Mahony, master of the NMH, said doctors can only carry out an abortion if there is a substantial risk to the life of the mother.

Doctors have to play “medical roulette” with patients’ lives in applying Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws, the head of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) said.

It comes as figures show 21 of the 3,735 who travelled to the UK for abortions last year were children.