The Toronto Star February 21, 1992, Friday, FINAL EDITION Rocker Sinead O'Connor enters Irish abortion fray Reuter DUBLIN (Reuter) - Irish rock star Sinead O'Connor stormed into parliament last night, refusing to budge until Prime Minister Albert Reynolds saw her about an abortion crisis that has bitterly divided this Roman Catholic country. The singer, who admitted having two abortions, evaded security guards and ran into the lobby. Shrugging off threats of arrest, the fiery, shaven-haired singer in jeans and army boots was eventually granted a 20-minute audience with Reynolds over a 14-year-old rape victim who has been banned from having an abortion in England. O'Connor urged all Irish schoolchildren to stage a one-day strike in protest at the Dublin High Court decision and said she had no regrets about her own two abortions. The singer, who had a worldwide hit with the Prince composition "Nothing Compares 2U," said of the abortion crisis: "The people created this situation and the people must go on the streets to do something to change it." In a move warmly welcomed by Reynolds, the parents of the girl at the centre of the furor have decided to appeal to the Supreme Court. The girl says she became pregnant after being raped in December by the father of a friend, after more than a year of sexual abuse by the man. She is reported to have threatened suicide rather than carry the pregnancy to term. The Irish government is paying the legal costs for the appeal, which will be heard on Monday and Tuesday. Abortion is banned in Ireland and, after a bitterly divisive referendum in 1983 that pitched liberals against conservative Roman Catholics, an amendment to the constitution was introduced to protect the rights of the unborn child. The girl's case came to the attention of authorities when the family asked police whether they should preserve tissue samples from the fetus for possible prosecution of the alleged rapist. Attorney General Harry Whelehan ordered the girl not to have an abortion and not to leave the country, and his decision was affirmed this week by High Court Judge Declan Costello.