Although the number is slightly up — a 0.95% increase compared with the 5,469 in 2013 — the long-term trend shows a decline. The number of these abortions was roughly 9,000 in 2004. And in 2013 these numbers reached the lowest in any year since 1969. “Amsterdam and Brussels have clinics where they speak English and…

Mara Clarke is highly critical of Irish legislation regarding abortion. “I think the abortion law in Ireland is completely unfit for purpose. Ireland exports its abortion problem.”

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“At the end of the day, restricting abortion doesn’t stop it. It just doesn’t. It just stops safe abortions.”

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“Women with money can have abortions, and women without money have babies or—and I’m not fucking kidding—they drink bleach,” said Mara Clarke, the founder of the Abortion Support Network, an abortion fund that helps Irish women travel to England to safely terminate their pregnancies.

“Is it the flagrant contempt for women inherent in Irish abortion law that gave the discussion at Too Loud a Silence its edge?”

“Dozens of migrant women living in Ireland are unable to access abortions abroad as a result of “insurmountable” travel and legal obstacles, new figures indicate.”

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“We know many often give addresses of friends or sisters in the UK and not Ireland,” Mara Clarke of the Abortion Support Network says. She also adds there are “hundreds if not thousands” Irish women who buy medical abortion pills online, while many resort to “hugely dangerous” methods of forcing a miscarriage like “drinking bleach” or…