‘English solution’ to abortion issue will remain, says Shatter

Justice Minister Alan Shatter insisted an “English solution to an Irish problem” will persist when it come to fatal foetal abnormalities after the X case legislation is passed.

“I’m on record as saying it is a terrible cruelty that, under our current legislation, a woman who’s pregnant and where there is a fatal foetal abnormality cannot have that pregnancy terminated, we know many women go to England.

“We have an English solution to an Irish problem, but I totally recognise that, within the current constitutional parameters, that issue cannot be addressed.”