The Master of the Rotunda asserts that abortion should be legal in Ireland where the baby has anencephaly or Trisomy 13/18. (Irish Examiner, January 4).

Children with life-limiting illness should get medical cards, as well as those with cancer, the Irish Hospice Foundation has urged.

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