CPA seeks meeting over abortion leaflet

THE Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA) is meeting Cura management next week to ask how they intend fulfilling their contract with the State body after Catholic bishops told the service to stop issuing abortion clinic contacts.

Cura receives €600,000 a year from the State body on the basis that women still wanting an abortion at the end of a counselling session would be given the CPA's Positive Options leaflet that lists nine agencies and the services they provide.

The bishops said seven of the nine agencies listed on the leaflet state they would give contact details for abortion clinics if requested during a pregnancy counselling session.