Coppinger introduces yet another bill on abortion
Ruth Coppinger brought forward another abortion-related bill in the Dáil yesterday, this time aimed at removing the mandatory three-day waiting period.
It follows the defeat she and party colleague Paul Murphy suffered before Christmas, when their bill to permit abortion on request up to birth was opposed by a majority of TDs from advancing to the next stage.
Seeking to bolster her latest bill, Coppinger cited in the Dáil yesterday the recommendation from the Chair of the Three Year Review of the abortion law in favour of removing the three-day wait before an abortion. Not surprisingly, Coppinger refrained from reminding the Dáil that the Chair of the Review, Ms Marie O’Shea, admitted at an Oireachtas Health Committee meeting that before making the recommendation, she never spoke of any of the thousands of women who went for their first abortion appointment but didn’t return for the second appointment three days later to proceed with the abortion.
