/// In 1992, women were officially given the right to travel abroad, mostly to the UK, to obtain terminations. Pro-repeal campaigners said almost 170,000 have done so. ///
/// The Irish Government's deputy premier, Tanaiste Simon Coveney, has argued that effectively left Britain deciding the law for Irish women around the procedure and it was time to take back control in Ireland. ///
There is no longer a "national" NHS as each of the home nations has its own NHS. That is why, until last year, Ulster women had to pay for NHS abortions in Great Britain. A case was heard in the Supreme Court last year which upheld the English NHS' right to impose a charge as did the Scots and Welsh NHS. The charge was removed in all three countries last year which is...
That is correct.
So it’ll be bad for business but good for Ireland.
My folks have been out in force this morning in Dublin. But Dublin isn’t the problem sadly ...
170,000 in 26 years works out at 6,500 annually. Not a vast number. While they are in the UK, ostensibly as tourists, they will be buting food, accommodation, transport - all of which are good for the economy.
As mentioned in previous answers, these terminations are not done on the NHS, so there is no cost to British taxpayers.
It was mentioned in a television feature on the subject recently.
Either way it's not clear to me that it matters. Ireland should repeal the 8th not because it serves English interests, but because it serves the interests of the Irish women who shouldn't have to make the journey in the first place. Whether they go private or use the NHS is irrelevant.
/// Women from Northern Ireland (NI) can now access free abortion care in England. BPAS operates the booking system for NI women requiring treatment. ///
Not sure if those women from Eire have to pay though.
The cost to the NHS is only a factor from June 2017 - before that, the women had to pay. The numbers (of women) involved since then is in the hundreds, so there aren't huge sums involved, and definitely not huge sums over a number of years..
Thanks, Ichkeria - I lead myself astray when looking up information. I still don't know if women from Eire get free treatment, procedures - and if so, how long that has been the case.
/// The spokesperson said: "After decades of political impasse on abortion rights in Northern Ireland, the government’s commitment to fund abortion care in England is a policy that will make a real difference. Bpas will also be funding travel and accommodation for those women who meet the government's eligibility criteria until a permanent framework is in
place. ///
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