A doctor who has spoken of her experience of travelling to Liverpool to terminate a pregnancy, has said she is “quietly optimistic” that the Eighth Amendment will be repealed. Dr Siobhán Donohue said neighbours and friends had contacted her before she voted in Bray, Co Wicklow to express support for her decision to tell her abortion story while campaigning for a Yes vote. Twenty-weeks into her pregnancy Dr Donohue was told her baby had anencephaly, a condition which meant his skull would not form fully and that he would not survive after being born. She said she had told her story for “all the women who could not tell theirs”. She has spoken of spending time in Liverpool Women’s Hospital where she was told there was a room nicknamed “the Shamrock Suite” as “that many Irish women have been in it”.

Source: The Irish Times May 25, 2018 14:47 UTC