State risks further abortion compo after €30k payout

Ireland is at risk of having to pay compensation to thousands of women forced to travel abroad to receive an abortion unless the law is immediately changed to make the procedure legal and easily accessible.

The US-based Centre for Reproductive Rights (CRR) made the claim after the State paid out €30,000 over an abortion case, for only the second time in its history, in response to a UN ruling on the matter.

At the Oireachtas committee on the Eighth Amendment yesterday, two pro-life organisations cancelled meetings with the group and chairwoman Catherine Noone accused pro-life members Rónán Mullen and Mattie McGrath of trying to undermine her.