Family doctors back some abortions

Family doctors who are members of the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) have voted in favour of a motion calling for women pregnant with non-viable foetal anomalies to have access to legal abortion in the Republic.

The motion calls on the Government to make this choice available to women in its upcoming abortion legislation.

However, doctors attending the ICGP annual general meeting at the weekend rejected by three votes a motion proposing that women who become pregnant as the result of a criminal act, such as rape or incest, have access to abortion.