Repealing Eighth Amendment could have ’unintended consequences’, warns Patrick O’Donovan

Repealing the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution instead of replacing it with a revised version will leave too much uncertainty around Ireland’s future laws on abortion, a minister of state has warned.

Repealing the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution instead of replacing it with a revised version will leave too much uncertainty around Ireland’s future laws on abortion, a minister of state has warned.

Patrick O’Donovan said he will not support the repeal of the Eighth Amendment in this summer’s anticipated referendum.