Sinead McCarthy was 20 weeks pregnant when she went in for a routine scan in her local hospital in Mullingar last December. She was subsequently contacted by the hospital in Liverpool and offered an appointment just days before Christmas. She said that if she had been offered the procedure in Ireland “then we would have already started on our journey to healing. Grace is our daughter and I love her.”She said that Ireland had “finally realised the importance of good mental health [but] there are still people who want to force a mother to go on this journey. She said John had reached all his developmental milestones and was now 15-years-old now and in second year in school.

Source: The Irish Times May 16, 2018 16:16 UTC