Independent TD Clare Daly claims women’s lives are being put at risk by Ireland’s abortion laws.

The 8th amendment gives equal rights to life of the unborn child and the mother and has been in place for over three decades.

The lobby group – Choice Ireland – has said it is unacceptable that 154,000 women have had to leave Ireland to obtain a termination since the 1980’s.

Deputy Daly, who’s addressing a meeting on the subject in Drogheda tonight, says she believes most people want the law to change: “I think it is an absolutely appalling hypocrisy women and in many cases their partners have to travel outside of Ireland to access what is a routine health issue in many other countries.

“I think that that view is shared by the overwhelming majority of Irish people who in repeated opinion polls have demanded that we remove the 8th amendment so that we can widen the provision.”