The Government is being asked to hold another referendum on abortion.

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service says it has treated many thousands of women from Ireland since 1983 and says the government is basically "washing its hands" of the 4,000 Irish women who travel to Britain for abortions each year

However, the Pro Life Campaign says the British group's intervention in the abortion debate is disgusting and entirely predictable - and an attempt to exploit new abortion laws by establishing abortion clinics here.

But Suzanne Lee of Abortion Rights Campaign Ireland believes the laws here must be changed: