Here is the article...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-ireland-eu-abortion,0,3784328.story
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Irish ban on Abortion
Three pregnant woman in Ireland are claiming that it is a violation of their human rights that abortion is banned in Ireland. They say that because if they want an abortion they have to go to neighboring countries to get one, and Ireland will not give them any medical assistance when they return, is unfair and against human rights.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I didn't know that Ireland banned abortion, although that is not surprising given the strong Roman Catholic population, as the article discusses. It is interesting that this issue is only now being brought to the European Court of Human Rights. I think it is unsafe that, even though abortion has been legalized in situations where the woman's life is at risk, doctors are still reluctant to perform them due to the controversial topic.
ReplyDeleteWow I also had no idea that Ireland had banned abortion. The Irish government seems pretty discriminatory initially but then seems to become more accepting. Fve years after David Norris sued the Irish government for criminalizing homosexuality, they legalized it. "Nonetheless, Irish abortion law has fallen into legal limbo since 1992, when a pregnant 14-year-old girl who had been raped by a neighbor successfully sued the government to permit her to travel to England for an abortion. The government tried to stop her, arguing it could not facilitate an illegal act, even though she was threatening to commit suicide". This is very troubling because even very conservative anti-abortionists tend to accept abortions in the case of rape. Later that year the government did legalize traveling abroad to get abortions but just that the government would try to stop her in the first place, is very troubling.
ReplyDelete