Poll: 80% support wider access to abortion

More than 80% of the public want wider access to abortion to be made available in Ireland, an opinion poll shows.

In what is seen as a further softening of attitudes towards abortion, just 9% favoured maintaining the current restrictions where abortion is only permitted if a woman’s life is at risk.

That position was only made legal a year ago, suggesting the new law is already lagging a long way behind public opinion.