More than 170,000 women and girls have travelled to another country for an abortion since 1980. The vast majority went to Britain, while a smaller number went to the Netherlands.Some 3,265 females travelled from Ireland to the UK for abortions in 2016, the latest year for which we statistics are available. That means Irish females accounted for almost seven in 10 (67.9%) of the non-resident abortions carried out in Britain that year.http://www.thejournal.ie/how-many-irish-travel-to-uk-for-abortions-3986043-May2018/___________London: Five years ago Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old pregnant woman, died of blood poisoning in the middle of the night in a hospital in Galway, after staff had refused to consider terminating her pregnancy until she was almost beyond saving.“By the time they decided to do the termination she was in septic shock, and what held them behind was the fear that they might be prosecuted for performing an illegal abortion,” he said. “The doctors’ hands are tied.”The doctors were still checking the fetus’ heart beat when they should have been saving the mother’s life, he said.https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/how-one-woman-s-death-pushed-the-irish-on-abortion-20180523-p4zh4p.html