Ireland's opposition leader wants to liberalise abortion law

Micheál Martin stuns sections of Fianna Fáil party by changing his mind over the contentious issue

Ireland’s opposition leader has revealed he changed his mind in favour of liberalising the Republic’s strict anti-abortion laws after meeting women forced to travel to Britain to end their pregnancies after learning they had no hope their babies would be born alive.

Micheál Martin has stunned conservative sections of his Fianna Fáil party by backing the repeal of the eighth amendment to the Irish Republic’s constitution, which prohibits abortion, in a nationwide referendum in May.

Continue reading... February 11, 2018 at 04:30PM