ICTU defers abortion motion

THE executive of the Irish Congress Trade Unions yesterday threw out a motion at its delegate conference which would call for women to have the right to abortion on demand in Ireland.

Kerrie Fleck of the Belfast Trades Council had called on ICTU to campaign with pro-choice groups for the right to terminate a pregnancy under similar conditions to those in Britain.

“We can no longer accept a 19th century solution to a 21st century problem... She [the woman] should be able to make her choice.