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	Learn more about Abortion in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Abortion, in its most commonly used sense, refers to the deliberate early termination of pregnancy, resulting in the termination of the embryo or fetus.
		Very late abortions can be brought about by the controversial intact dilation and extraction (D & X) or a hysterotomy abortion, similar to a caesarian section, and requiring the surgical decompression of the fetus's head before evacuation.
		However, the reason abortion 'increases' the risk of breast cancer is because if a woman does not have children near the beginning of childbearing age, that in itself increases their risk.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/ab/abortion.html (602 words)

	Abortion in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In response to the 1967 legalisation of abortion in the United Kingdom and the subsequent rise in the numbers of Irish women travelling to the UK each year to obtain an abortion, pro-life groups in Ireland began to press for an explicit amendment to the Irish constitution banning abortion.
		In 1983, the Republic of Ireland by referendum amended the Constitution of Ireland to add in what became generally known as the 'Pro Life Amendment', which asserted that the foetus had an explicit right to life equal to that of the pregnant woman, with the Irish State guaranteeing to vindicate that right.
		Estimates to the number of Irish women seeking abortions in Britain vary, in the 1990s it is alleged that between 1,500 and 10,000 women who stated in hospital records that they were 'Irish' travel annually.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abortion_in_Ireland (705 words)

	Abortion in Ireland - Historical Perspective and current campaigning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Abortion was totally illegal in Ireland under all circumstances until the Supreme Court judgement in the "X" case earlier this year, which seems to permit abortion in the extremely limited case of threatened suicide by the mother.
		In Ireland powerful reactionary forces have succeeded in not only preventing the liberalisation of laws here on abortion but have gone much further with a constitutional amendment, the 8th Amendment, and a series of court actions which have outlawed the distribution of information on abortion.
		Women choose abortion for all kinds of reasons- because of rape or incest, because they already have too many children, because their health would be damaged by another pregnancy, because they could not cope with rearing a handicapped child in this society, or simply because they do not want a child.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/talks/abort_irl.html (1490 words)

	Socialism Today - Abortion Rights
		In these countries abortion is illegal on all but the narrowest grounds: where the life of the woman is in danger or if she will suffer permanent harm to her health if the pregnancy continues.
		It wants to overturn, ‘by popular demand’, a 1992 ruling of the Supreme Court that made it technically legal to carry out an abortion in Ireland where the life of the woman (or, in that particular case, a 14-year-old girl) was in danger from suicide risk.
		Although there were only 574 legal abortions in Portugal in 2001, the Planned Parenthood Federation estimates that annually between 20,000 and 40,000 women have illegal abortions and that 10,000 a year end up needing hospital treatment from botched backstreet abortions.
	www.socialismtoday.org /63/abortion.html (1133 words)

	USATODAY.com - Irish vote on abortion referendum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Ireland's conservative government and the Catholic church backed a "yes" vote to the proposed constitutional amendment, which would empower lawmakers to legalize abortion only when continued pregnancy would cause fatal medical complications.
		Advocates of more liberal abortion rights oppose the measure because it also would overturn a 1992 Supreme Court ruling that abortions should be permitted anytime a woman's life was at risk — including if she is considered at risk for suicide.
		Besides eliminating suicide risk as grounds for abortion, the bill also would make it a crime, punishable with a maximum 12-year sentence, for anyone to aid or perform an abortion in Ireland unless it was deemed medically necessary.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/03/06/ireland.htm (626 words)

	Repressing Abortion in Ireland - Ireland / Britain Gender - Anarkismo
		Until now the thousands of women who have had abortions and returned to their lives and families in Ireland were a silent group who have had no voice and whose experiences were never heard.
		For the first time, abortion as an important public issue was discussed without the usual 'baby killer' name-calling, (probably a sign of a change of strategy by pro-life groups rather than evidence that they have gone away).
		Ireland is changing is spite of the efforts of the Catholic Church and the main political parties.
	www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=799 (2779 words)

	Misconceptions about Abortion common in Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Abortion is a religious issue, because the stated basis of opposition to abortion is the theological question of when person-hood begins.
		Abortion is being used as a method of population control in underdeveloped nations.
		Although abortion is a legitimate way to allow individuals to limit their childbearing voluntarily when a country's resources cannot support its population, pro-choice people oppose forced abortion.
	struggle.ws /darg/miscon_irl.html (1938 words)

	IFPA Launches Campaign for Safe and Legal Abortion in Ireland - Indymedia Ireland
		Abortion is a health issue which should be regulated by health guidelines and not by way of criminal statutes or constitutional provisions, except where such provisions exist explicitly to protect women’s health.
		Ireland’s ban on abortion is in contravention of its commitments under the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights, and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention of Human Rights.
		Ireland with all this practical mess in the EU should be more aware of legalising abortion and should pull themselves together and tackle the lifestyle that leads women to take such extreme measures.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=71411 (4140 words)

	CTV.ca \| Vote leaves Ireland's abortion laws uncertain
		The proposed amendment was intended to solve the contradictions in interpreting the 1983 constitutional amendment banning abortion, which also recognized the equal right to life of the mother and the fetus.
		In the decade since, abortion in Ireland has inhabited a legal netherworld, with doctors performing an unknown number of life-saving terminations but none on women diagnosed as suicidal.
		In the wake of the defeat, Ahern and his most loyal lieutenants were at pains to claim it would not harm his Fianna Fail party's prospects in the general election expected in May or June.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1024896310770_20305510 (617 words)

	David Quinn on Ireland & abortion on National Review Online
		The Irish constitution currently protects the life of the unborn and the life of the mother, a clause which is the fruit of a 1983 referenda that passed by a two-to-one margin.
		In 1992, abortion was back in the news in Ireland with the "X-case" A 14-year-old girl was impregnated by a middle-aged man - he was subsequently found guilty of unlawful carnal knowledge — and she was prevented from traveling to England for an abortion.
		It is generally not appreciated that Ireland has one of the lowest maternal death rates in the world; this should go a long way toward proving that abortion does not save women's lives.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-quinn030502.shtml (678 words)

	Ireland: government attack on abortion rights defeated in referendum
		Voters were asked not to vote for or against abortion, but to approve Ahern’s proposal to amend the constitution so as to prevent a mother’s suicidal state being used to justify an abortion.
		Anyone seeking an abortion in Ireland, attempting an abortion, carrying out an abortion or aiding and abetting an abortion would have been liable to a prison sentence of up to 12 years.
		By defining abortion law as applying to embryos “implanted in the womb”, they argued, the constitution was giving legal protection to the use of the morning-after pill, which prevents a fertilised egg becoming implanted in the womb, and contraceptives such as the IUD that work in a similar manner.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/mar2002/ire-m13.shtml (1087 words)

	European Human Rights Court Rules Against Ireland Women in Abortion Case
		The women argue that Irish law, which prohibits abortions unless the life of the mother is in danger, restricts their right to privacy, information, and to end their undesired pregnancies.
		She claims Ireland's abortion laws prevented her from both having an abortion and knowing more about future pregnancies.
		The European court "concluded that the applicant did not comply with the requirement to exhaust domestic remedies as regards the availability of abortion in Ireland in the case of fatal fetal abnormality," it said in a statement about the case.
	www.lifenews.com /nat2403.html (439 words)

	Geraldine Kennedy, Abortion in Ireland—new poll
		The poll was conducted among a sample of 1,000 electors at 100 sampling points throughout all constituencies in the State last Saturday, three days after the girl at the centre of the C case had an abortion in England.
		Asked specifically about the provision of abortion facilities in Ireland, 35 per cent think abortion should be permitted when the mother's life is at risk.
		In the X and C cases, the courts decided that the girls could travel to England for abortions because there was a real and substantial risk that they could commit suicide.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/61/283.html (579 words)

	Abortion Ship Arrives in Dublin, Ireland
		abortion pill to women whose unborn children are less than 10 weeks old.
		Ireland, an issue left in legal limbo by all major political parties since
		Ireland for cases in which the mother's life was at risk, including
	www.acljlife.org /news/nr_010615abortion_ship_arrives.asp (275 words)

	The DARG view: The Need for a Right to Abortion in Ireland
		Abortion is constitutionally permissible under the Supreme Court judgment in the X case (AG v.
		Further, although abortion is a criminal offence under sections 58 and 59 of the OAPA 1861, R. v.
		Bourne [1938] KB again provides that a doctor who performs an abortion where she or he believes that the continuance of the pregnancy would make the woman a "physical or mental wreck" has a full defence to these sections.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/darg/sub_view_c.html (511 words)

	Irish Post: Renewed debate over Ireland’s abortion laws
		Ireland’s Health Service Executive confirmed a teenager had been taken to Britain for a termination — but refused to discuss details of the case to protect the anonymity of the girl.
		Ireland’s Supreme Court later ruled an expectant mother had a right to an abortion here if there was a substantive risk to her life — including the threat of suicide.
		The Government tried to have the threat of suicide eliminated as grounds for an abortion in a referendum but the move was defeated.
	www.irishpost.co.uk /news/story.asp?j=3723 (374 words)

	The Abortion Referendum in Ireland
		The government claimed that if the so-called loophole whereby suicidal women were entitled to an abortion was not closed, then women, presumably with the collusion of the mental health profession, would literally be queuing up to pretend that they were suicidal in order to obtain abortions for a myriad of "social reasons".
		In reality, abortions which are necessary to save women's lives are carried out regularly in Irish hospitals under the constitutional provision guaranteeing women an "equal right to life".
		Abortion for tens of thousands of women in Ireland already has been or will be a reality.
	www.marxist.com /abortion-referendum-ireland.htm (2564 words)

	CNN.com - Irish await abortion poll result - March 6, 2002
		An 1861 law makes abortion in Ireland illegal, but exceptions are made if the mother's life is at risk.
		In 1992 a ruling of the Irish Supreme Court added suicide to the definition of medical risk following the case of a 14-year-old rape victim judged to be in danger of taking her life if she did not terminate the pregnancy.
		In Ireland conviction for having an abortion, or aiding or procuring an abortion, can carry a jail sentence of up to 12 years, although women are free to go abroad for a termination.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/03/06/ireland.abortion (365 words)

	Abortion in Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On 11 November 1994 the Birth Control Trust, part of the English abortion lobby, published the second of two highly questionable surveys purporting to show a majority of people in Northern Ireland to be in favour of liberal abortion.
		However, the stating that an abortion was necessary in these circumstances would suggest that the mother was seriously ill or suicidal.
		The Northern Ireland Unionist Party is therefore opposed to abortion and to the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland.
	www.preciouslife.net /aboutus-abortionni.asp (966 words)

	RTE News - Call for abortion to be legalised (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Alliance for Choice has called for abortion to be legalised in Ireland following the publication of statistics which show that each day, 15 Irish women travel to Britain to have an abortion.
		Sian Muldowney, Alliance for Choice spokeswoman said: 'Ireland needs to face up to its responsibility to Irish men and women to provide a comprehensive sex education strategy, a national sexual health services strategy and safe and legal abortion in Ireland.
		Alliance for Choice is a national grassroots organisation seeking to campaign for safe and legal abortion in Ireland.
	www.rte.ie /news/2006/0705/abortion.html (169 words)

	Case to Force Abortion on Ireland Deemed Inadmissible by European Court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The woman sued the Irish government for insufficient access to abortion, claiming that her rights were violated under multiple articles of the EU human rights convention, including article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), article 8 (right to respect for private and family life), and article 14 (prohibition of discrimination).
		In a press release yesterday, the Court also stated that the existing abortion law in Ireland was sufficiently flexible to have allowed the woman to obtain an abortion, given her particular circumstances.
		The case was expected to have a significant impact on Ireland's abortion laws, if the Court had decided in the woman's favour.
	www.preciouslife.net /show-news.asp?NewsArticle=655 (425 words)

	Family Planning Services in Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Abortion in Ireland remains illegal except in very limited circumstances, but women may not be prevented from travelling abroad for abortions and abortion information may be made available in certain circumstances.
		The age of consent to sexual activity is 17 and it may be a criminal offence to have sex with a person under the age of 17.
		Abortion is illegal in Ireland except where there is a real and substantial risk to the life (as distinct from the health), of the mother.
	www.oasis.gov.ie /health/womens_health/family_planning_services.html (1110 words)

	General
		When the girl and her parents returned to Ireland to contest the ban, the Irish High Court forbade them from departing Ireland for the duration of the girl's pregnancy.
		However, the court's narrow ruling failed to address whether a woman has the right to leave Ireland to seek an abortion if her life was not in danger, and thus, implicitly left in place the restriction on the right of pregnant women to leave the country in cases where their lives are not at risk.
		The other two proposals, which were intended to bring Ireland into compliance with international human rights norms and the recent European courts' decisions, guaranteed that the right to travel114 and freedom of expression115 would be preserved despite the prohibition against abortion in Ireland.
	www.hrw.org /about/projects/womrep/General-230.htm (635 words)

	Abortion in Ireland
		Although the 1967 Abortion Act does not extend to Northern Ireland, 71 abortions were performed there in 1999, mainly for fetal abnormality.
		Abortion is a fact of life for women in Ireland, just as it is in Britain.
		At BPAS, we are proud to provide an affordable, high quality abortion service, but women from Ireland should be able to come to our clinics in Britain out of choice and not out of necessity because they are denied abortion in their home country.
	www.prochoiceforum.org.uk /comm75.asp (848 words)

	Green Left - IRELAND: Anti-abortion referendum defeated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Rather than mark this anniversary with further liberalisation of abortion law in Ireland, on March 6 the country went to the polls to vote in a referendum that sought to overturn this judicial ruling by making it illegal for suicidal women to seek an abortion.
		As has been the case with abortion referendums in Ireland in the past, the voter turn-out was small with only 42.89% of those eligible participating.
		Under Irish law it is illegal for a woman to have an abortion unless there is a “real and substantial” risk to her life.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2002/485/485p16.htm (602 words)

	Abortion Law in Ireland - a brief summary
		The 20th Anniversary of the 1983 abortion referendum was marked by an Alliance for Choice event which saw a broad coalition calling for the repeal of article 40.3.3 from the Constitution.
		A 13 year old girl, pregnant as a result of rape, and in the care of the Eastern Health Board was the subject of proceedings in the District Court as she sought permission to leave the state for the purposes of availing of a lawful abortion in England.
		Mr Justice Geoghegan ruled that as Miss 'C' was likely to take her own life if forced to continue with the pregnancy, she was entitled to an abortion in Ireland by virtue of the Supreme Court judgement in the 1992 X Case.
	www.ifpa.ie /abortion/hist.html (1587 words)

	December 2002 Action News—Ireland
		The Abortion Act of 1967, which legalized abortion in the United Kingdom, was never applied to Northern Ireland.
		Smyth complains, "It's the same as everywhere else in the world: they use 'clarification of the law' to liberalize and legalize abortion." Since the 1967 Act was never applied to Northern Ireland, a 1938 law that allows abortion only to save the life of the mother is still in force.
		A cynical effort is underway in the courts to "clarify" the 1938 law to liberalize abortion in Northern Ireland, as it was throughout the rest of the U.K. in 1967.
	www.prolifeaction.org /news/2002v21n3/ireland.htm (1099 words)

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