Varadkar says no decisions made on abortion law review proposals but FG TDs will have ‘free vote’ on any changes
When asked if providing abortion services could be included as part of the “job spec” for consultants being hired by the HSE, Mr Donnelly replied that “any medical practitioner, regardless of the terms that they are hired on, is fully within their rights legally to conscientiously object, even if they have been hired with a job description that includes provision of terminations.
The time frame for any necessary legislation change would depend on the length of time that the Health Committee spends reviewing the report, he said. “They may want to spend a good deal of time on this. There will be passionately held views on both sides of this, there will be the expert medical view, probably expert legal view as well. So what I want to do is give the health committee the time that it feels it needs”.
Also on Wednesday, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said no decision has been made by the Government on any of the legislative proposals put forward by an independent review into the State’s abortion laws.A report by barrister Marie O’Shea into the effectiveness of Ireland’s abortion law, in place since January 2019 following the referendum to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, has recommended a number of changes to the legislation.
The Meath West TD said it now appeared that the three-day wait period was under threat and “the ability of the majority of doctors to refuse to carry out abortions on the basis of conscientious objection will be threatened”. “We have made no decision whatsoever on any of those legislative proposals. It will now sit with the Oireachtas committee. They will have a chance to consider it and make a report back to the Government, and we will consider it then.
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