Readers Blog: Great that Varadkar discussed abortion

I am pleased to note that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was willing to spend at least a couple of hours discussing the matter of reproductive healthcare and access to abortion facilities with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.

For far too long Irish politicians have ignored this issue on the basis that the matter is supposedly of no interest to their constituents.The consistent evidence of repeated opinion polls shows this is not the case.

The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution denies every woman and girl in Ireland the right to decide how she is treated during pregnancy.