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.

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.