Abortion case analysis: LEFT WITHOUT A VOICE
WE don’t know. As of now, the general public, the media, the lobby groups, don’t know fully what happened. That’s the reality of the apparently heart-rending story involving a young woman and her baby at the centre of the current abortion controversy.
Questions abound. Why, when the woman apparently discovered her pregnancy at eight weeks, was nothing proactively done to address it for at least another three months? Was her extreme distress, and her wish for a termination, not obvious? Why was it not acted on? Why was the HSE not informed until eight weeks after her discovery? Was the lack of urgency associated with the fact that she had just recently arrived in the country?
