‘We can’t keep sending women to England for abortion’, says  Master of the National Maternity Hospital

Dr Rhona Mahony, the Master of the National Maternity Hospital, has said the country cannot continue to pretend that Irish women aren’t having abortions and that she favours the repeal of the Eighth Amendment.

Speaking at the Labour think-in in Athy, Co Kildare, Dr Mahony said that, in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities, it is no longer tolerable that we are sending women over to the UK for termination.

“We can’t keep sending people to England pretending it doesn’t happen,”she said.