Women considering abortion ‘vulnerable’

Women considering an abortion are still vulnerable to "the activities of rogue crisis pregnancy counselling services".

Senior law lecturer Mairead Enright yesterday said current laws are flawed, meaning women undertaking an abortion had little option but to keep it secret.

Ms Enright, who lecturers at Kent Law school, was one of the speakers at a conference of ’Abortion Privacy/Abortion Secrecy’ in UCC yesterday which was also addressed by Prof Carol Sanger of Colombia Law School.