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A FURTHER FIVE hospitals are to offer abortion services from Monday, bringing the total to 17 of Ireland’s 19 maternity hospitals to offer to service, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has announced.
Currently, 12 of the 19 maternity hospitals are providing abortion services.
The five maternity hospitals being added to the list are Kilkenny, Portiuncula, Letterkenny, Wexford and Portlaoise.
Expanded services for termination of pregnancy under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 were introduced from 1 January 2019.
It is Government policy that abortion services under the 2018 Act should be provided in all 19 maternity hospitals.
The HSE National Women & Infants Health Programme (NWIHP) has advised that all maternity hospitals offer a range of termination of pregnancy services that include:
The HSE has advised that the remaining two hospitals, Cavan and Clonmel, will begin service provision in 2024.
“I welcome this significant expansion of termination of pregnancy care. This will enable women to access care in their local units without the additional burden of travel, HSE clinical lead for termination services, Dr Aoife Mullally, said.
“While the majority of early pregnancy abortion care is provided in the community, a hospital-based service is essential for some women and is a valuable support for the community-based service.”
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Good.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: it’s excellent. Also interesting that the comments are open on this. Seems very random.
About time, the point of the vote was so people no longer had to travel. If you offer a health service, it needs to be local.
@Jen McC: health service its certainly not that for the baby
5 more hospitals will be allowed provide “abortion services”
AND you won’t be allowed hold even a silent vigil outside if you believe it’s wrong to kill unborn babies
Our new “tolerant” and “progressive” Ireland is indeed a wonderful place
@Gerry Kelly: what don’t you hold a silent vigil on your own womb ?
@Gerry Kelly: nor should you be allowed to, make your own decisions for yourself based on your beliefs/standards/morals and leave others to do so also.
@Gerry Kelly: Who told you unborn babies are being killed?
How on Earth would any sensible person arrive at that conclusion?
@Gerry Kelly: Yes absolutely the right call. Have the vigil in your backgarden.
@Gerry Kelly: light a candle in your own gaffe… Do as long a vigil as u like.. While doing so, ask gods forgiveness for poking your nose into other’s business and for judging others actions.. And if you have a green house, throw a stone or two.
@Gerry Kelly: you can hold a vigil, just not directly outside a hospital, feel free to have a non silent vigil outside the Dail etc.
Not allowed outside hospitals because it has been used to intimidate women who are going for legal medical treatment
@Gerry Kelly: F off with your vigil.
Imagine a hospital providing legal service being news.
As a nurse I saw my first abortion in the 80s in the uk it was horrific I’m glad I’m now retired and don’t have to see it done ever again
@lucia: Ever see open heart surgery? Horrific stuff.
So they are expanding this service. Contrast with lack of any provision of dental services for children who need general anaesthetics.
Absolutely disgusting to do this
How you’d sleep at night would be beyond me
Have a bit of cop on go on something if you dnt want a child
@Karen Byrne: The irony of telling people to cop on while displaying zero. Poor effort at trolling, 2/10
Two fingers up to the old Catholic Ireland. Viva la modern society
Good but why has it taken so long?
have your say