"I don't agree with adoption. I had a sister that was given up for adoption and my granny was adopted, so I don't agree with that."
The speaker is one of the women quoted in Women and Crisis Pregnancy, a comprehensive piece of research by Ms Evelyn Mahon, Ms Catherine Conlon and Ms Lucy Dillon of Trinity College Dublin, published in a volume of almost 600 pages by the Department of Health and Children.
The section on how adoption is viewed by those women who chose abortion offers some insights. Some, like the speaker above, seemed to regard adoption as wrong in itself. Said another: "I wouldn't be able to live with that, like. I was there, like." She herself was an adopted child.
Others believed that if they chose adoption they would be unable to part with the child after giving birth. "Adoption was never an option, I don't know why, it just never was," said one. "I felt if I was going to carry a child for nine months, then I was going to look after that child."
The assumption that they could not go through with an adoption meant that those women who were determined not to become lone mothers - or not to become mothers at all - saw themselves as having only one option: abortion.
Others thought their secret would be discovered if they went through a pregnancy - though in the past, many thousands of women actually used adoption as a means of keeping their pregnancies secret.
The report says: "Abortion enabled them to conceal their sexual activity, prevented them from forming a relationship with a developing embryo and enabled them to resume their lives as it was before they were pregnant. Adoption was a far more complicated alternative, one in which the final outcome was unpredictable."
Women and Crisis Pregnancy is available from the Government Publications sales office at £10.