New abortion data shows that 64 women with addresses in Clare travelled to the UK for a termination last year.
The figures contained in today’s Irish Times shows that the majority of the women that underwent the procedures in England or Wales described themselves as single and most of them were aged 25 and over.
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Overall Irish residents accounted for nearly 4 thousand abortions in Britain in 2012- and almost 87 percent of those terminations carried out on Irish women were classed as surgical and the remainder were medical.
Orla O’Connor, Director of the National Women’s Council says there needs to be wider access to abortion for Irish women
