Abortion
Abortion is legal in Ireland only when there is a real and substantial risk to life of the pregnant woman, this includes the risk of suicide. It is not against the law for women to travel abroad to access abortion services or access information on safe and legal abortion services in other countries.
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As a specialist sexual and reproductive health care provider, our counsellors, doctors, nurses, trainers and staff have extensive knowledge of the extreme physical, financial and emotional hardship experienced by women and girls forced travel abroad to access safe abortion services.
The IFPA believes that abortion is an intimate aspect of private life, intricately linked with human rights values and principles that protect a woman's sexual and reproductive rights. These rights include the right to health, life, privacy, nondiscrimination and to be free from cruel and degrading treatment. These values are unacceptably infringed upon by the criminalisation and inaccessibility of safe and legal abortion in Ireland.
The IFPA supports the choices of women and girls with a crisis pregnancy in all circumstances.