concern for a woman's health, which is illegal as a justification for abortion in Ireland, become concern for a woman's life, which is theoretically legal but unlegislated? -- and because a practicing doctor in Ireland will get no experience in performing surgical abortions, and because a doctor may be unwilling to perform an abortion and have no idea who s/he could refer a patient to, and because a doctor may know that they'll get no support from their hospital if they do perform an abortion -- for all of these reasons, women who need abortions are forced to travel, cervix dilated, miscarrying, ill, overseas to the UK where the abortion they need will be performed at their own expense. One woman, Jennifer, said that in 2003 when she was 16 weeks' pregnant, she started bleeding and went to her local hospital. "All the nurses inside [the unit] just started crying uncontrollably. They said there was no hope for the baby and they couldn't understand I hadn't miscarried. "There was no ... fluid [around the foetus], he had one kidney, fluid on his brain. But there was a heartbeat. They kept listening." Jennifer said GPs and four consultants met her separately after work in their own time for scans, only to tell her "you need to make a decision immediately" due to the impact on her health. She said one said to her mother: "I know what I would do if it was my daughter, you need to read between the