Experts dismiss fears that the ‘floodgates will open’

Fears that allowing suicide as grounds for an abortion would “open the floodgates” are completely unfounded, TDs and senators were told yesterday.

Ciara Staunton of the NUI Galway School of Law said that “to suggest that there would be some sort of collusion between a pregnant woman and a doctor is not the case”.

She said: “We trust doctors in every other clinical judgment they make and we must continue to trust our doctors when it comes to abortion.”