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THE BLONDE teenager, waiting to go into the operating theatre, is 16 years old and nearly 16 weeks pregnant. She'll be one of up to 60 women having an abortion that day at the Marie Stopes clinic in south London.
She realised she was pregnant about eight weeks earlier, but couldn't pluck up the courage to tell her mother. The weeks ticked by. She agonised over what to do: she had plans to go to college; her boyfriend said he'd stand by her whatever she decided.See the full content of this document
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It's the Great Abortion Taboo: What Really Happens to an Unborn
She had considered having an abortion in secret, but eventually her mum guessed and made the appointment for her.
The termination she's about to have would be illegal in Ireland, where it is against the law except in strict medical circumstances, so many Irish women go to Britain for an abortion. But in Britain, abortions performed for by Deborah Davies critical health reasons accounted for only two per cent of the 200,000 abortions carried out last year. Just over 6,000 of those were Irish women. The overwhelming majority were carried out on the legal grounds that two doctors agreed that contin...See the full content of this document
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