Women traveling from Northern Ireland to England to get abortions cannot receive “free” procedures. That’s the ruling of the United Kingdom’s highest court, which dismissed an appeal Wednesday by a mother and daughter to obtain free access to England’s publicly funded health services.

In Ireland and Northern Ireland, abortion laws are stricter than in other parts of Europe. And Irish women traveling to England must pay for the procedure themselves, unlike citizens in England, Wales and Scotland — who have access to the U.K.’s single-payer National Health Service system.

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“In Northern Ireland, obtaining an abortion is punishable by a life sentence, which is the strictest criminal penalty for abortion in Europe,” as Time.com noted last year. “In Ireland, women could face a 14-year prison sentence, according to Amnesty International. That has prompted close to 15,500 women to travel to England or Wales — where it is not illegal to terminate a pregnancy — for the procedure between 2010 and 2012.”

Many Irish women have traveled to other countries to end the lives of their babies.

In 2016, 724 legal citizens of Northern Ireland had abortions in England and Wales, according to data from the British Department of Health.

One of the women who filed the current suit became pregnant at 15 years old — and she and her mother challenged the system in court. They wished for Northern Ireland citizens to be able to receive free abortions in England.

“The mother and daughter who brought the case spent £900 ($1,150) in 2012 for the 15-year-old girl to have an abortion in a private clinic in England,” Newsweek reported.

The high court judges ruled 3-2 on Wednesday against the anonymous women.

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“We have instructed our legal team to file an application with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, to protect the human rights of the many other women who make the lonely journey to England every week because they are denied access to basic health care services in their own country,” the women said in a joint statement.

Christianity is the main religion in Northern Ireland; the Roman Catholic Church has the largest presence. In Northern Ireland, abortion is permitted only to save a mother’s life.

“In 2016, there were 4,810 abortions to women residents outside England and Wales, compared with 5,190 in 2015,” according to British government data. “Principally, 68 percent of non-residents were from the Irish Republic, and 15 percent were from Northern Ireland.”

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“If traveling abroad isn’t an option, Irish and Northern Irish women with unwanted pregnancies reportedly seek out ways to self-induce an abortion, like with medication, or carry the fetus to term,” Time.com noted last year.

In March, thousands of Irish women protested the region’s abortions laws.

“In 2016, a 21-year-old Northern Irish woman received a three-month sentence, suspended for two years, for procuring a miscarriage with abortion pills,” Newsweek reported. “She was 19 years old when she got pregnant and could not afford to travel to England to terminate her pregnancy.”