Abortion ‘agenda’ claims false, says Mullen

A senator has rejected claims that he suggested four women had a wider agenda as they told of their experiences of travelling for abortion due to fatal foetal abnormalities.

Rónán Mullen was accused of being unpleasant when Jenny McDonald, Ruth Bowie, Arlette Lyons, and Amanda Mellet took the harrowing step of telling their personal stories in Leinster House last Wednesday.

James Burke, Ms Mellet’s husband, claimed the senator had accused him of having a “bigger agenda” at the end of the meeting coinciding with renewed calls for the Government to legislate on the X case and allow abortion if the life of the mother or unborn child is under threat.