Anti-abortion legislation TDs trample on the democratic will of the people

IRELAND’S answer to the Watergate scandal has revealed that some Labour Party TDs would prefer more liberal abortion legislation than that being drafted by the Government — and, in other news, the Pope is Catholic.

On Sunday, we learned that an intrepid pro-life student had secretly recorded a conversation with Dublin TD, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, in June, before traipsing down to Wicklow to entrap an unsuspecting Anne Ferris.

To the student’s horror, both TDs expressed their dissatisfaction with X Case legislation, which will provide for abortion only in cases when there is a real and substantial risk to a woman’s life, and they complained it was too restrictive in its scope.