He told the Irish edition of The Times: “That is outrageous”.
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Women are also being told that abortion can turn them into child abusers in later life, a secret recording at the clinic taken by an undercover London Times journalist reveals.
“To suggest that women who have had abortions are more likely to perpetrate child abuse is to heap insult on top of the stigma already imposed on the more than 100,000 women who have been forced to leave Ireland to access safe legal abortion services”, DFCI said.
The Dublin crisis pregnancy agency exposed in an undercover investigation by The Times should be prosecuted for giving women bad advice, Simon Harris has said.
“I have asked my officials to give me an urgent update on the situation and present me with policy options”, he said.
The minister’s concerns were echoed by a pro-abortion organisation called Doctors for Choice Ireland (DFCI), which said the advice that was secretly recorded and published online is “entirely risky, untrue and dangerous”.
“It is important that women in this country are provided with factual information”.
Reacting to the story, the Health Service Executive said it is aware of a number of alleged “disingenuous crisis pregnancy counselling services” that advertise themselves as crisis pregnancy counselling services but cause considerable upset and anxiety to women already in a very hard situation.
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“The clear aim of these organisations is to bully and manipulate vulnerable women into not seeking terminations. It means they have been known to neglect their children or overprotect them- it’s a psychological thing”.
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An advertisement for The Women’s Centre on Berkeley Street in Dublin 7 describes the clinic – which is unregulated under Irish law – as a source of impartial advice for pregnant women who wish to travel overseas for an abortion.
