I’m not a huge fan of Orla Barry’s Life! show; in fact I’d go so far to say that next to the Sports show it is one of my least favourite in the weekday line-up. However yesterday’s programme broadcast a superb investigation on the issue of ‘rogue abortion advice centres’.
The term “rogue” abortion advice centres is an unusual one but listening to the investigative piece quickly shows what it refers to.
For those of you who have missed the show and wish to listen to it again, it is available on the Newstalk website; right click this link and save it to your desktop. The second part of the investigation is here. The RSS link to the Podcast feed is available here for those using various download services.
There is no point in muddying the waters with a debate on abortion; as reporter Aisling O’Riordan says, it doesn’t matter what your view is on the matter but women and girls should not have to be faced with this aggresive manipulation when they are at their most vulnerable.
Hopefully Mary Harney and the Government can help regulate this practice better in future and take these disgusting people out of the system.
And well done to Aisling and all involved in the piece; I’d love to see more investigative work being carried out on the station when it goes national later this year.