Some lawmakers balk at limited abortion legislation in Ireland

By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Four lawmakers from Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s party came out on Tuesday against a move to legalize abortion under certain conditions but are unlikely to be able to scuttle the measure or threaten his comfortable majority. Kenny’s government is proposing access to abortion when a woman’s life is in danger and both sides of the debate have staged protests on an issue that has long polarized the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country. …