Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger has told the Dáil that a pregnant woman went to the UK to secure an abortion despite being told in an Irish hospital that she had only a 15% chance of delivery.
Coppinger said the woman was told, following a scan in Portiuncula Hospital, that possible Edwards syndrome was detected and that the baby “might live only an hour or so”.
She was told, Coppinger said, that doctors “could not do anything” because her pregnancy was beyond 12 weeks.
The deputy said the woman, who she referred to as ‘Mary’, was then given “the names of three hospitals in England”.
Most babies with Edwards’ syndrome will die before or shortly after being born.
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