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Thomas Finlay, Niall McCarthy, SĂ©amus Egan and Hugh O'Flaherty) held that a woman had a right to an abortion under
Article 40.3.3° if there was "a real and substantial risk" to her life. This right did not exist if there was a risk to her health but not her life; however, it did exist if the risk
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Ireland an exemption in respect of its laws on abortion. At the time of the Maastricht negotiations, it was thought that this exemption meant that the EU could never impose abortion laws upon Ireland. The X Case showed that the Irish government understood that its laws against abortion
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Article 40.3.3° of the Constitution, termination of pregnancy is only permissible where there is a "real and substantial risk to the life of the mother", including a real and substantial risk of suicide. To require there to be a risk of immediate or inevitable death would not adequately
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Then, in an ironic coincidence, the man who had started it all by impregnating the 14-year-old girl in the X case came before the courts again, again charged with a sexual assault on a young girl. He was sentenced to 3½ years in prison on
Tuesday, the day before the
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was broadcast on 22 February 2010, suggesting that the underlying divisions of opinion still exist, and that the facts of the case were too difficult and unique for a simple resolution at the time. Some quotations appeared on RTÉ's website:
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shortly after the judgement. In 2013 Justice O'Flaherty, speaking after his retirement, said that the X Case was "peculiar to its own particular facts", since X miscarried and did not have an abortion, and this rendered the case
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thoughts because of the unwanted pregnancy, and as abortion was illegal in the state, the family planned to travel abroad for an abortion. Before the planned abortion was carried out, the family asked the
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Attorney General".
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by failing to provide an accessible and effective procedure by which a woman can have established whether she qualifies for a legal abortion under Irish law, which led to the enactment of the
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590:Mac Cormaic, Ruadhan (6 July 2013).
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1926:Societal attitudes towards abortion
1846:Legalized abortion and crime effect
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687:from the original on 14 August 2016
534:European Convention on Human Rights
414:), and an express provision in the
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1876:Misinformation related to abortion
1786:Beginning of pregnancy controversy
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1896:Post-abortion care
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