Media cover from Labour Party launch of Repeal the 8th Amendment commitment and policy

Media coverage from the Labour Party launch of our policy and commitment to Repealing the 8th Amendment. 

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/vote-on-abortion-likely-early-next-term-if-labour-in-power-1.2540009

'Party senator Ivana Bacik, who drafted the Labour policy on abortion, said it will “absolutely not” lead to abortion on request. Ms Bacik said the Labour proposals are broadly in line with standards that apply in England and meet “the needs of the thousands of women who travel” from Ireland every year for abortions.'  Irish Times, Thursday 18th February, 2016

 

http://www.thejournal.ie/labour-abortion-law-2611642-Feb2016/?utm_source=shortlink

'Labour senator Ivana Bacik said the draft legislation the party has endorsed is “broadly in line” with the 1967 Abortion Act in the UK.

“It’s effectively the same law that currently meets the needs of the thousands of Irish women who travel to England every year,” she said.

 So, while it’s clearly not abortion on request – absolutely not – but it’s the sort of legislation that we see replicated across Europe in a sort of compassionate fashion and it’s very similar to the 1967 Act.

She denied that the regime in the UK amounts to ‘abortion on demand’, insisting that legislation requires a test on the health of the woman, which has to be certified by two medical professionals.'

The Journal.ie, Thursday 18th February 2016