The Oireachtas abortion committee has recommended that the pro-life amendment be entirely deleted from the Constitution and that legislation be introduced that would allow virtually unfettered access to abortion. After voting 14-6 to recommend a referendum on deleting article 40.3.3, the committee also voted that legislation should follow that would allow abortion without reason up to 12 weeks—a position that goes even further than the UK’s abortion on demand style law. They also voted for abortion after 12 weeks, “without gestational limit”, for reasons affecting the mental health or the physical health of the mother. A later motion recommended abortion if there is a so-called “fatal foetal abnormality” afflicting the unborn child. The only two positions of the Citizens Assembly that the committee rejected were abortion for non-fatal abnormalities, such as down syndrome, or for mere socio-economic reasons after 12 weeks. The committee also recommended improved sex education in schools and the provision by the Government of universal free contraception.