Leo Varadkar to press Fine Gael on changes to abortion law

Health Minister Leo Varadkar will push Fine Gael to campaign at the next general election on a platform of loosening Ireland’s strict termination laws.

The minister made the pledge during a heated debate in the Dáil on a bill introduced by Independent TD Clare Daly to allow abortions on the grounds of fatal foetal abnormalities.

Mr Varadkar’s stance that the Government opposed the move because it had no mandate to legislate for the reform was branded “horse shit” by Independent TD Mick Wallace.