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To: Irish_Thatcherite
Nine years later we had the 'X-Case', in which a treacherous supreme court judge overruled the democratic will of the people.

Your kidding. What happened after that, did the people or another judge fix it or is it still illegal in Ireland (forgive me, I don't know much about other countries laws)

8 posted on 06/02/2004 4:23:03 PM PDT by massiveblob
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To: massiveblob

"Your kidding. What happened after that, did the people or another judge fix it or is it still illegal in Ireland (forgive me, I don't know much about other countries laws)"

It's a long story, it was legalised, but the Irish Medical Council, resisted attempts to introduce it in the country.

Under pressure from Independent polititian Mildred Fox, TD, the Irish Government reintroduced a half-hearted Pro-Life amendment in 2002 (half hearted because it only protected life after implantation, rather than conception, and it made no attempt to clear up the right to travel or right to information issue), which I voted for because I believed it to be lesser evil, but the Pro-Life vote was split on the issue, so the amendement was not passed.

So to conclude we have a legal quagmire in Ireland when it comes to abortion, but at least we have no abortion clinics in the country, including Northern Ireland (that we know of anyway).

I don't know how accurate I am here, as I say it's a legal quagmire.


9 posted on 06/02/2004 4:43:35 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (The Left say meat is murder, but not abortion)
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