A review of the State’s abortion laws will be sent to Government within weeks. Abortion campaigners want the already liberal law made even less restrictive and to curb the conscience rights of doctors and nurses.
Barrister Marie O’Shea was last year appointed as chairwoman of the review. Coalition sources said on Friday that the review is now expected to be submitted in “a short number of weeks”.
In January, the Department of Health said Ms O’Shea believed it was “vitally important” that key research on conscientious objection was considered before the work was submitted to Government.
The chairwoman was awaiting key research from a study, Conscientious Objection after Repeal: Abortion, Law and Ethics, carried out at Trinity College Dublin.
