World is watching to see what happens next on abortion issue

‘Legalise all abortions, without restriction, for unborn babies up to 12 weeks.

World is watching to see what happens next on abortion issue

‘Rape, incest, financial grounds, foetal abnormality (fatal or otherwise), All will now be legitimate legal grounds for an abortion, should the recommendations of the Committee on the Eighth Amendment be accepted by the Government.

“In addition to recommending a straight repeal of the controversial 1983 legally flawed Eighth Amendment, the committee concluded that 12 weeks’ gestation is the appropriate point up to which abortion should be made legal.”

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