Anti-abortion campaigners have said they will exploit the three-day waiting period for terminations

An anti-abortion group has claimed that the government has left a “window wide open” for it and others to target women trying to access terminations in Ireland, in an attempt to convince them not to go ahead.

Family & Life is planning to use the required three-day waiting period between a woman asking for an abortion and undergoing the procedure as an opportunity to lobby against it. The tactic is part of a campaign that will include social media advertising ahead of Ireland passing a new abortion law.

Family & Life helps fund Gianna Care, an unregulated anti-abortion agency which has previously been secretly recorded making the misleading claim that all women who have an abortion regret it. David Manly, the head of Family &