Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As a State-funded organisation that seeks to represent the views of all Irish women, does the National Women's Council feel any obligation to represent the views of many Irish women who are opposed to abortion? Does the council believe that the unborn has any rights? Its representative approvingly quoted the United Nations special rapporteur as saying that restrictions are an impermissible barrier to the realisation of women's right to health, which must be eliminated. Does this mean that the council is opposed to all restrictions on abortion?

Choice Ireland's founding documents state that it campaigned for free and legal advice on demand. Does that include partial-birth abortion?

Action on X stated that it is public knowledge that some of the Irish women who have abortions in Britain do so because the pregnancies would damage their physical or mental health, or possibly endanger or shorten their lives. I wonder on what basis does it makes those comments?

Also, if a woman does decide to abort a baby, are there any situations in which Action on X believes that the father has any right to oppose this? In the same situation, do grandparents have any right to oppose the abortion of their grandchild?