Independent Alliance ministers face Fine Gael row over abortion bill

Three Independent government ministers “will have grave difficulty” voting down a Dáil bill next week to liberalise the country’s abortion laws.

Independent Alliance ministers face Fine Gael row over abortion bill

Ministers Shane Ross, John Halligan, and Finian McGrath are on a collision course with their Fine Gael counterparts over a bill seeking to allow for abortions in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.

The bill is being brought forward by Independents for Change TD Mick Wallace.

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