Health Minister Simon Harris has launched a blistering attack on anti-abortion protesters outside the National Maternity Hospital on Wednesday, saying their actions were “intimidating, sickening and anti-democratic.”“How dare you. How dare you turn up to the National Maternity Hospital and try to intimidate women, we've heard from women who miscarried, who were asked on the street 'are you going to murder your child? “What's not right and not proper is to gather outside a National Maternity Hospital and attempt to intimidate, and harass women, their partners, and these healthcare staff turning up to work,” he said. “It struck me that the Dáil is about 300 meters away from the National Maternity Hospital, the Department of the Taoiseach is about 300 meters maybe, my department might be was eight or 900 meters away. pic.twitter.com/DXBVWXw0GB— Mary Higgins (@mairenihuigin) January 1, 2020“And I do want to legislate for Exclusion Zones.

Source: Irish Examiner January 02, 2020 17:06 UTC