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6th February 2018
12:41pm GMT

“The only thing I could think of was how to get it out of me, I would have done anything. There was no way I was continuing on with that pregnancy, I didn't want to be pregnant. “I would like to have children on my terms, not on somebody's else's, and not like that.”
Sarah said she applied online for a termination in London.
She travelled to the city and underwent a series of consultations and the abortion itself.
Overall, Sarah said the trip took three days and cost her around €1,100.
Current Irish legislation states that a pharmacist can refuse the morning after pill under "conscientious objection."
Sarah said: “The particular pharmacist told me: ‘If you are going to lie to me, I can't help you.”
She also told the radio station that when she reported her attack to the Gardaí, she was asked whether or not she had been drinking.
She said:
“I was taken to a secondary room and it took me about 20 minutes to say the words ‘I was raped’ and that was the first very cold response that I received."
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