Brenda Power

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Brendan O'Connor · Newspaper Panel · 21 Jun 2026 podcast

There's 15 countries across Europe that do have this.

Yeah, I'm just putting to what the arguments are.

So what you're talking about then is a small cohort of women who have left it to the 11th week to go and inquire about.

They might not have left it, they might not have known.

Well, maybe they didn't.

And I'm having had five children.

I'm kind of a bit sceptical about that in some cases.

But anyway, maybe they didn't know until the 11th week that they were pregnant.

And then they go to their GP in the last few days.

And apparently the suggestion is that they might have difficulty getting back to the GP for a second appointment.

First of all, that's very disingenuous because the first appointment can be made by phone or by Zoom.

So now we're talking about women in rural areas who have to travel over hill and down dale for days to get to their GP and who don't have phones.

So I don't agree with that.

And I think anyway, even if they only need one appointment and they have left it to the last week and it is that difficult to get a GP appointment, they might time out anyway.

As far as I can see, Brendan, I mean, I voted for repeal in 2018.

I voted for it so that women could have a choice and a choice that they would be supported to make with plenty of time to consider a decision that is not reversible if you change your mind a year or two later.

I didn't realise the objective was to abort as many babies as possible.

And I do believe that the only reason you feel that the law needs amending is if you feel that the 11,000 who decided to have an abortion last year was not enough and that the 2,500...

who appear to have changed their minds or certainly did not come back, should not have been given the chance to do so.

Yeah, and there's a lot of potentials there.

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