Mick Wallace: We can, and we must, stop subjecting parents to this cruelty

Mick Wallace TD writes that his bill to permit termination in cases of fatal foetal abnormality is necessary to end a human rights violation, and does not pose a constitutional problem

NEXT Thursday, the Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013, which I introduced during the last Dáil, will be discussed in a two-hour private members debate and voted on the following week.

It is a piece of legislation to permit pregnancies to be terminated in Ireland in the rare but tragic cases where parents are given the worst news possible, that the foetus has a condition which is incompatible with life.