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Lynch backs Varadkar abortion stance

The Junior Health Minister Kathleen Lynch says she believes that the Eighth Amendment is too restric...
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12:31 PM - 17 Dec 2014



Lynch backs Varadkar abortion...

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Lynch backs Varadkar abortion stance

TodayFM
TodayFM

12:31 PM - 17 Dec 2014



The Junior Health Minister Kathleen Lynch says she believes that the Eighth Amendment is too restrictive.

Last night, the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar said the lives of Irish women are being put at risk because of Ireland's laws on terminations.

Mr. Varadkar says the current law has a "chilling effect" on doctors who have to make decisions based on law and not medicine.

While Kathleen Lynch says she didn't hear the comments made by Health Minister Leo Varadkar last night, she said she was broadly supportive of another referendum to repeal the 8th.

Minister Lynch says it's an issue for the next government:



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