Ireland’s new abortion service is the envy of many healthcare systems

I am incredibly proud as a GP to be part of something so worthwhile and rewarding

I never thought I would be a provider of abortion services.

It’s not that surprising really. Abortion was not mentioned once in the medical curriculum when I qualified 14 years ago.

It was an unspoken phenomenon, a secret reality.

Before I became a GP, I never had a real conversation about abortion.

It’s astonishing to consider that fact now, knowing that 25 million unsafe abortions happen each year, mostly in developing countries.

High-profile legal cases, such as the…