Pro-choice legal academics call for amendments to abortion bill
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A group of pro-choice legal academics have published new analysis highlighting “five priority issues” with the abortion bill currently before the Oireachtas.
Professor Fiona de Londras, Máiréad Enright, Ruth Fletcher, Dr Sheelagh McGuinness and Dr Vicky Conway have warned that “many of the current provisions in the Bill will lead to sub-optimal clinical care and potentially harm pregnant people”.
They also criticised Health Minister Simon Harris for appearing “unwilling to accept any amendments” to the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018.
They said: “The Minister’s responses to proposed Amendments rarely, if ever, engaged with the substance of the underpinning argument, relying instead on ambiguous reference to legal advice from the Attorney General’s office.”
The full analysis has been published on the Lawyers for Choice website.
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