The Women's Podcast

The Women's Podcast


Ep 121 Girl sectioned after psychiatrist ruled out abortion

June 12, 2017

Irish Times Social Affairs Correspondent Kitty Holland speaks to Róisín Ingle about a story in today's paper, which opens with the following sentence:

A girl deemed to be at risk of suicide who wanted an abortion was sectioned under the Mental Health Act because her treating psychiatrist said terminating the pregnancy was “was not the solution”.