IRELAND: Abortion Law Offers Escape to Rich and a Dead End to Poor - Independent.ie
Since Ireland first inserted the 1983 amendment into the Constitution, equating a woman’s right to life with that of a foetus, voters have had a number of opportunities to make the law more restrictive. We have never had an opportunity to liberalise it.
The choice, if you could call it that, has only ever veered from endorsing an absolute abortion ban to allowing it in very limited circumstances to save a woman’s life.
Consequently, nobody who can actually bear children in Ireland today - nobody under the age of 49 - has had any real say over our draconian abortion regime.
Instead, women’s reproductive choices have been controlled, for more than 30 years, by Catholic dogma reincarnated as law.
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