Women's health group says new National Maternity Hospital won't provide procedures banned by the Catholic Church
It's welcoming the Tanaiste's acknowledgement of shortcomings of the deal reached by the State with the Sisters of Charity.
The Campaign Against Church Ownership of Women's Healthcare says it will protest outside the Dail next Saturday over concerns about religious ownership of the hospital.
Chair of the group, Jo Tully, says women won't even be able to avail of contraception in the hospital if it has a religious ethos:
"In St Vincent's Hospital today again run by the religious Sisters of Charity. Neither sterilisation or be a tubal ligation main sterilisation, certainly not abortions, and even you cannot get a prescription for contraception in that hospital today, and that is going to be the ethos if we don't stop it, that our New National Maternity Hospital is going to be run and dictated by."
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