
Originally Posted by
petaljam
Why did you ask then?
The young woman who died in a taxi trying to get home from England after an abortion recently was a mother who wanted to terminate a subsequent (wanted) pregnancy because she was in such pain from fibroids. Unfortunately for her, her life wasn't actually in danger, (unbearable pain doesn't matter when you're a woman) and she had to wait several weeks to save enough money to travel, by which time the problem was much more complicated to deal with.
If she had lived in a country with abortion for health reasons, or indeed for choice, she would have had the termination in Dublin when she decided she needed it, and her medical records would have been available to the doctors who did the procedure. She would also have been able to rest after the intervention, not get into a taxi to travel home immediately.