Peadar Tobin
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I think people were surprised by the amount of Fianna Fáilers who voted against it, given that the two leaders of those parties very clearly, I suppose, came out in advance to show the other TDs which way to vote in that.
For us, the really key element of this is that the three-day wait, the three-day reflection period has been shown to work.
So we know that there are about 10,000 women who went to the first abortion appointment that didn't go to the second one.
Now, there's lots of reasons why they didn't go to the second one.
Well, there's no evidence to say that they went on to, let's say, other abortion appointments as such outside of the hospital sector, which is a very small fraction of that particular figure.
So we do know that there are thousands of women who actually took advantage of that wait period who went on to have their children.
So today there are thousands of children at home who are alive today as a result of that.
And the big problem that I have in relation to this is that the review of it and the government have never spoken to one of those women.
they've never spoken to one of those children in relation to, was this a beneficial element of your decision-making process?
Well, first of all, dozens of mothers have called me and contacted myself saying,
feeling that it really frustrated and angry that their voice is not heard in relation to this at all.
And many who said that they were in a crisis situation, you know, it was very, very difficult if they were able to take an abortion pill on their first consultation, they would have.
But within the three day wait, they found that actually there were supports out there.
It was possible to do and they decided to go ahead and do it.
So the idea that that whole sector of this process will be deleted from this discussion is wrong.
Yeah, but like I'm telling you, dozens of mothers have called me to say that this has been and the fact that none of them were even contacted by the review or by the government in relation to this.