Pro-life campaigners have claimed solutions to rape and fatal foetal abnormality abortion cases could be found without the need to remove the Eighth Amendment.

The aim of natural family planning is to determine as accurately as possible the beginning and end of the fertile phase, says Helen O’Callaghan.

Irish medicine has a long-held tradition of treating both an expectant mother and her unborn, developing child.

There is grave concern among doctors across the specialities about the proposed legislation for termination of pregnancy in the case of threatened suicide on the part of the mother.