Mother and unborn child both deserve duty of care

Despite the much flaunted Amnesty-inspired letter from pro-abortion doctors, it appears that only 14 Irish doctors signed the letter.
Mother and unborn child both deserve duty of care

So in reality, this amounts to large scale foreign interference in the internal affairs of this country. A form of neo-colonialism, in effect. It does seem extraordinary that any Irish doctor would sign a letter effectively seeking permission to kill one of his/her patients. I was always told that when a pregnant woman attended a doctor, the latter had a duty of care to two patients.

Has this principle changed?.

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