Breda O'Brien
Pro-life supporters are seen in a 2019 file photo holding signs outside the High Court in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photo: CNS/Brian Lawless, Reuters In barrister Marie O’Shea’s independent review of the abortion legislation, abortion is taken as an unqualified good. Therefore, anything standing in the way has to be removed. The three-day waiting period is framed as dispensable. And yet the review acknowledges elsewhere in a section on consent, that “there are risks that women may regret their…
