‘A system intent on piling more hurt upon a delicate but already bruised baby’

Monica White’s nine year old daughter Olivia can’t walk or talk and has severe spinal curvature. She can’t get on a waiting list until deemed to require surgery — for which she needs an MRI. She’s been offered a date of April 2019. She’s currently in hospital. In today’s Irish Examiner, Monica says her daughter can’t afford to wait.

With the impending abortion referendum looming, I find myself, like countless other mothers in this country pondering issues that are, in my personal situation, more of an absolute priority.