life—affirming medical clinics such as stanton health care are revolutionising women's medical care and for women. stanton international opened a centre in belfast called stanton health care in 2015, four years before abortion was legalised in nothern ireland. its website says it's a safe place where women are empowered to make their best choice. when mother—of—five ashleigh found out she was pregnant in 2021, she called stanton health care believing they could help her with an abortion. it was made quite clear to them that that's what i wanted and they didn't ask me did i want anything else. they told me that they would sort it out for me and that there would be support, there would be counselling for, for afterwards. but when she turned up for an appointment, she was told she needed an ultrasound scan. it revealed she was pregnant with twins. and they were doing the scan and i had my head the other way, and they kept telling me to look and look and look and look at the scan, and i wouldn't look at it. and she said, "these are your babies," and i was like, "oh, god." so obviously i loo