Taoiseach welcomes psychiatrists' intervention

An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has welcomed the intervention of two leading psychiatrists into the abortion debate.

In what is being described as a significant intervention into the debate, they have said abortion is not a psychiatric issue and there are no psychiatric conditions for which abortion is the only answer.

Professor of Clinical psychiatry at Trinity College in Dublin, Anthony Clare, and Professor of Psychiatry at University College Dublin, Patricia Casey, have both issued a joint statement.

They say the proposed amendment provides support and protection for women’s health and the health and protection of their unborn babies.