Mara Clarke of Abortion Support Network, an England-based charity that provides emergency funding to women who need to travel out of the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland to obtain an abortion in a private clinic, says those she has helped have ranged from women raped by family members to girls as young as fourteen and…

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Since October 2009, more than 900 women have contacted the Abortion Support Network, which provides financial aid to women seeking funds to travel for a termination. “We have heard from women who were having difficulties trying to raise the money and that pushes them later into gestation,” said Mara Clarke from the network, adding some…

Mara Clarke, the founder of the Abortion Support Network in London which provides support to women from Ireland seeking to access abortion, said the women the organisation helped were in “dire financial straits, making huge sacrifices to get the services they need”. “Recently we helped a mother who fed her three children toast and sandwiches…

“I wasn’t at the Dail last Wednesday night. I wasn’t there on Thursday night either. And though I was heartened to see the protesters in front of the Dail, reminding TDs about the women they are representing, my reality couldn’t have felt farther away from the Dail. That Wednesday was my first day of the week…

Irish lawmakers on Friday overwhelmingly approved abortion for the first time in limited cases where the mother’s life is at risk, in a vote that revealed deep divisions in the predominantly Catholic nation.

“Given that the Irish government has now had more than 22 years to legislate on the X case, I’m not sure what the hold up is but then I’m not an expert on Irish abortion law. “I am an expert in what happens to women when access to abortion is restricted. Even if this law…

“Only a very, very small percentage of women who need abortions will be able to access them in Ireland,” she told The Guardian. “Women pregnant as result of rape, women with fatal foetal anomalies, couples who simply can’t afford to care for a (or in most cases, another) child, will still be left behind.”