Update: Dozens of GPs staged a walk-out of the Irish College of General Practitioners’ Extraordinary General Meeting today.
300 members attended the meeting to discuss the provision of abortion services by GPs.
According to the ICGP, 50 or so GPs walked-out after 30 minutes over objections to the official procedure of the meeting.
However, Killarney-based GP Dr Andrew O’Regan, who is Pro Life, said about one-third of the group of more than 300 walked out when the board of the ICGP “refused to accept members’ motions from the floor”. . . [Full text]