Bill grossly insults pregnant women and those who may become pregnant

I FEEL sick and helpless after reading the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill. This ridiculous legislation is likely to be on the statute books by the summer and I know I can do nothing about it.

It is legislation which criminalises a woman who ends her pregnancy because she wants to and threatens her with up to 14 years in prison or an unlimited fine — except when she ends her pregnancy up the road in Newry or across the pond in Aberystwyth. In which case, the loss of a human life is of no interest.

This abomination, in this country, which I love. A hypocritical patch-up job between two very different political parties who face huge challenges elsewhere. So the pregnant woman has to be cut in half, like you’d do it in a circus act, except this time the show is for real.