Credit where it’s due... and that’s to 99 members of Citizens’ Assembly

The 99 citizens who represent us all at the Citizens’ Assembly gather once again in Malahide in Co Dublin this weekend.

It’s interesting to note that as they meet for the third time to discuss the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution they are having their discussions in 2017, the year that marks the 50th anniversary of the UK Abortion Act.

There are surely few other pieces of legislation enacted in one country that have had such a profound effect on one gender in another country. The UK Act does not legalise abortion but allows a legal defence for carrying out the procedure.