Disability laws: Plea over wording

Mothers of children born with life-limiting conditions want politicians to support the discontinuation of the phrase “incompatible with life” in disability legislation.

Last night in the Dáil Independent TD, Mattie McGrath, introduced a bill to ban the use of the term ‘incompatible with life’ to describe a diagnosed disability.

Mr McGrath said parents who received traumatic news about their unborn child’s disability should not be further upset by a medically meaningless phrase.