Latest: Sinn Féin pressing ahead with campaign to repeal 8th Amendment
Monday, April 24, 2017
Update 3pm: Sinn Féin has said the Oireachtas should not be bound by the Citizens Assembly’s findings on abortion.
Health spokeswoman Louise O’Reilly says TDs should still have discretion to put forward their own policies on the subject.
The Assembly wants a referendum to give the Oireachtas the power to legislate on the subject, and then for laws to allow abortion in any circumstances up to 12 weeks.
Continued at link: http://www.wexfordecho.ie/2017/04/24/citizens-assembly-calls-to-legislate-for-abortion-politicians-need-to-do-as-they-say/