A group of anti-abortion TDs want to make it an offence for women not to have a burial or a cremation after an abortion. It’s part of a number of measures aimed at making abortion as difficult as possible, copied from the US https://t.co/aPuob5nSYp

Nine TDs want to amend the bill to make it a criminal offence for a woman not to have a burial or a cremation after an abortion, including in cases where they had taken abortion pills prescribed by a GP at home.

The TDs who backed the proposal are: Mattie McGrath, Michael Lowry, Michael Healy-Rae, Danny Healy-Rae, Michael Collins, Michael Fitzmaurice, Peter Fitzpatrick, Noel Grealish and Carol Nolan.