The Crisis Pregnancy Agency is to seek a meeting with the Catholic pregnancy counselling service, Cura, after it was told by bishops to stop distributing a CPA leaflet.
The leaflet, part of the State-funded Positive Options information campaign, includes details of how to contact other Irish pregnancy agencies that offer information on foreign abortions.
The CPA Chairperson, Olive Braiden, said that Cura operates a referral process to eight other agencies referred to in the leaflet under an agreement with the CPA, from which it receives core funding of €600,000.
Ms Braiden said that Cura was not directly providing contact details for abortion clinics but could provide details of other groups in Ireland that provided this information.
Before the statement by the bishops this morning, a number of Cura volunteers had complained about the practice of distributing the Positive Options leaflet.
A moral theologian, Professor Vincent Toomey, has also demanded an investigation.
The bishops also denied any suggestion that Cura, which was set up by the Catholic Church in 1977, gave the leaflet deliberately in order to facilitate abortion.
