Creighton abortion bill move cannot exclude suicide test

AS the country reeled last week, after it realised it was possible to have an informed debate on abortion that didn’t degenerate into a spittle-flecked free-for-all, Lucinda Creighton donned her assault gear and decided to hell with the détente.

Directing her not-so-friendly fire at her cabinet colleague chums, who announced the Government’s intention to enact X case legislation a few short weeks ago, the European Affairs Minister haughtily declared that she intended writing her own draft abortion legislation that will omit the controversial suicide test.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, the Fine Gael TD said that while she recognised the X case judgment had to be “acknowledged” in any legislation, she was not sure it had to be enshrined in law.