Readers' blog: Five women a day have an abortion here using pills
We organised an action at the Dáil to coincide with the Oireachtas Eighth Amendment Committee, and with research showing 3,000 women from Ireland contact just two sites for online medical abortions. Three thousand requests came from Ireland, north and south, to Women on Web and Women Help Women — just two telemedical sites providing abortion pills. This research comes from the University of Kent (Professor S Sheldon).
We can never know the exact figure having home abortions because of illegality and secrecy. But we can now estimate that at least five people a day in the Republic of Ireland are using safe medical abortion pills. How can a government sweep such a reality under the carpet?
