Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not. I am actually talking about why I want the section deleted. I seek to have it deleted because of its effects on women. Women who will have abortions under this provision will suffer, as I outlined on Second Stage and as distorted in one of the daily newspapers last Friday. The article had no substance at all and what I said was misrepresented. The actual effects are identified by medics.

One of my main objections to the section is that it has the effect of widening the abortion regime and bringing about the liberalisation of abortion. That has happened in Colombia, where there has been extensive-----