Harney fails to back traumatised women

AFTER reading the Human Rights Watch report (Irish Examiner, January 28), it astounds me that the Government still ignores the demand to legalise abortion in Ireland.

The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney, has plenty of time to travel to the US for meaningless PR trips with FÁS, yet she has no time to acknowledge the trauma that forces 14 women a day to travel in shame and secret to Britain to obtain an abortion.

She refused to meet the Human Rights Watch group with regard to their investigation.