Unions urge immediate legislation for X case

The country’s largest trade union yesterday called for an end to foot-dragging on abortion legislation and urged the Government to bring in laws immediately to provide for terminations on the grounds recognised in the X case ruling.

Officials from Siptu, backed by Unite and the Women’s Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Union, handed in a letter at Leinster House calling on Taoiseach Enda Kennedy to stop delaying the matter.

“For over two decades Irish women have waited for their constitutional rights to be vindicated,” said Siptu campaigns and equality organiser Ethel Buckley.