Burton: I want doctors, not lawyers, to address difficult abortion issues

The Tánaiste Joan Burton says society needs to ask itself if it is right that people have to go through a lawyer to get medical treatment.

Burton: I want doctors, not lawyers, to address difficult abortion issues

The Tánaiste Joan Burton says society needs to ask itself if it is right that people have to go through a lawyer to get medical treatment.

The Labour Party leader's comments come following the case of a clinically dead pregnant woman being kept on life support.

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