GPs critical of timing of ICGP meeting on provision of abortion services

GPs critical of timing of ICGP meeting on provision of abortion services

Friday, 2 Nov 2018
By Ailbhe Conneely

GPs who organised a petition calling on the Irish College of General Practitioners to hold an Extraordinary General Meeting on the provision of abortion services in Ireland, have described the decision to hold it in four weeks time as "wholly unacceptable".

The 2 December EGM was announced in a statement by the ICGP board this evening, after it received a petition from hundreds of General Practitioners, who are concerned about the introduction of GP-led abortion services here.

Continued: https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/1102/1008343-icgp-meeting-abortion/