Government TDs will have a free vote on the Social Democrats’ Reproductive Rights Bill, which will be debated and voted on in the D\u00e1il.<\/p>\n
The legislation would abolish the three-day waiting period for an abortion, revise the criteria for a termination on the grounds of fatal foetal abnormality, and remove the criminal sanctions found in the current laws.<\/p>\n
The Government noted the bill at Cabinet yesterday and agreed to a free second-stage D\u00e1il vote as it is a conscience matter.<\/p>\n
However, the Department of Health believes there are difficulties with some parts of the proposed legislation.<\/p>\n
Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is expected to tell the D\u00e1il this morning that there are issues around the decriminalisation of doctors.<\/p>\n
Plus, the revised criteria for termination for medical reasons and the introduction of ministerial guidelines around clinical practice present significant difficulties.<\/p>\n
The bill is largely based on the recommendations of the O’Shea review of the Health Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Act.<\/p>\n
The minister will say that there is more access to services since the publication of the review, and terminations in early pregnancy are now provided in all 19 maternity hospitals.<\/p>\n
Also, one of the two consultations required for a termination in early pregnancy can now take place remotely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Government TDs will have a free vote on the Social Democrats’ Reproductive Rights Bill, which will be debated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-446227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}