ireland have to travel abroad for abortions went to meet one of those women. in a loving mother that's what jennifer ryan always hoped to be six years ago she was pregnant for the second time it seemed like a normal pregnancy until a routine scan in the twenty second week brought jennifer's world crashing down she can still remember the doctor's exact words. oh no she was. your baby has a lot of problems and she has a very severe form a spinal bifida starting on her and her shoulder blades and she won't be able to survive with us and on top of the. kidneys and the severity of the spinal bifida cause a lot of damage from brain your baby is incompatible with life. jennifer decided she wanted to spare her baby any pain and have an abortion what happened next was almost as traumatic she and her husband had to hastily arrange a trip to