Claim abortions will be outsourced to ‘overstretched GPs’

Abortion services would be outsourced to “under-resourced and overstretched” GP practices if legislative recommendations to replace the Eighth Amendment are introduced, it has been claimed.

During debates in the Dáil and Seanad which included many impassioned speeches arguing both sides, it was suggested that the recommendations of the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment would place massive pressure on GPs.

Senator and GP Keith Swanick told the Seanad: “In effect, it is proposed that GPs would prescribe abortion pills and that they would be taken under medical supervision of a GP.