BackgroundThe Irish government enacted a new, significantly liberalised law on abortion in 2018 and doctors began providing abortion care in January 2019. The Irish public health service, the Health Service Executive, established a dedicated abortion information and support service called...

The capabilities approach developed by Sen (1985) and others has been highly influential in development circles and is increasingly being thought of as a theoretical framework suitable for understanding and measuring quality of life issues in high income contexts (Anand et al (2009), EU (2009))....