IRELAND
Irish Sun
By Ed Carty
20th April 2017
ONE of the country’s most respected consultant obstetricians has said nuns will not be able to stop lawful abortion or contraceptive treatment in the new National Maternity Hospital.
A deal with the Sisters of Charity proposes the new €300million facility will be built on the St Vincent’s Hospital campus in south Dublin, which the religious order owns.
Amid furore over nuns potentially determining clinical care at the hospital, Dr Rhona Mahony, Master of the National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street, said medical care at the new hospital will be entirely independent.
“Can we get real about this,” the leading consultant said.
Ms Mahony said contraceptive treatment or abortions when a woman’s life is at risk will be carried out at the new campus when it opens in about four or five years time.
“At the moment in Holles Street we provide services to women. This includes contraception. We have about five terminations a year, otherwise women would die. This will continue in the new hospital
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