31-yr-old Minister for Health Simon Harris had been warned of these types of conflict prior to the Eighth Amendment referendum but now they’ve come to pass.
A number of concerned doctors have said that they will have absolutely no hand, act or part in ending the life of an unborn child, in other words they won’t particiape in an abortion procedure.
A member of the Medico-Legal Alliance has said that the country’s draft abortion law could face an extremely lengthy and serious legal challenge similar to that of the Asher’s Bakery freedom of conscience case.
Ben Ó Floinn, Senior Council, has said that such a challenge could become necessary in order to secure a wide-ranging freedom of conscience for doctors who will not provide terminations.