RTÉ ONE, Tuesday & Thursday 9.30pm
Prime Time
Thursday, 10 December 2009Presented by Miriam O'Callaghan
Ireland's abortion laws challenged in Europe
Keelin Shanley reports on the Government's failure to deal with the highly emotive and deeply divisive issue of abortion
Prof John Bonnar, Emeritus Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, TCD, and Dr Mary Favier, Doctors for Choice, discuss the issue
Sperm donor granted access to child
Edel MacAllister reports on the ruling handed down from the Supreme Court which states that a man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple should have access to the child
Dr Deirdre Madden, Senior Law Lecturer, UCC, John Waters, writer and journalist, and Paul Kenny, gay rights activist, discuss the issue
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