Legal experts say allowing doctors to include suicide as a threat to the life of a pregnant woman will not open the floodgates to abortions on demand.
They’re appearing before the Oireachtas health committee hearings before the coalition drafts new legislation.
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They say doctors need to be trusted on the issue of abortion in the same way as they are with other life and death decisions everyday.
Ciara Staunton from N-U-I Galway says legislation as planned in line with the X case is actually very restrictive.
