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Would It Save Money For Our Nhs If Ireland Vote To Allow Abortions?
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/// 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. ///
/// 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. ///
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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...
22:47 Fri 25th May 2018
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.
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.
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.
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/// 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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/// 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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