Abortion in Ireland: the case of A, B and C.

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ECHR judgement in A, B and C v Ireland
http://www.bailii.org/eu/cases/ECHR/2010/2032.html

Further information on D (a minor) v District Judge Brennan et al.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/3363/

BBC News articles:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8403013.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11342247

Safe and Legal in Ireland
http://www.safeandlegalinireland.ie/
http://www.youtube.com/user/SafeAndLegalIreland

Wikipedia page on the 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution (40.3.3)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland

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• abortion
• ireland
• reproductive
• rights
• european
• court
• convention
• human
• echr

[Redpilldown]

I am not sure if you are being sarcastic, so I will just say this. In Ireland there are now illegal abortions being carried out, maybe not with knitting needles but for sure not done in a professional way. Unqualified people, illegal drugs, self abuse have been used for years to abort unwanted pregnancy even when the law of the land permits it. Are you saying this type of thing does not happen, backstreet abortion, illegal drugs, punch to stomach. The essence of Vera Drake comes in many guises.

[DLandonCole]

@Redpilldown I'm not being sarcastic at all - I know there are such dangerous abortions going on.

[DLandonCole]

@JulianThePhilosopher It's not silly at all. Firstly, it deals with a fundamental principle of bodily autonomy; secondly, the implications of the ECHR's decisions could be far-reaching; thirdly, if we only dealt with the most important issue, we'd miss a lot of the other issues that need to be addressed; fourthly, I'll address what I find interesting.

[JulianThePhilosopher]

@Kaderie When u get an inverted population pyramid structure like Japan or in future china(stupid one child policy), it will be hard to reverse. Then u gota cut a lot of social welfare, because there will only be a few working people supporting a large elderly poopulation. I also think it is immoral to rob developing countries of their best and brightest. We do not have an overpopulation problem. what we have is people living longer and not wanting babies. And also the welfare system.

[sceimers]

I'm a law student in Trinity College. Doing an essay on the impact of this case on the Irish Legal system. From about 9.00 on helped me a good bit for gen. info. Thanks for uploading :-)

[CityzenJane]

@liamoshoro oh please.... it's a cultural thing.... I come from a huge Irish Catholic family.... we're 6 generations away and I still consider most of them poisoned by the priests....

[liamoshoro]

@CityzenJane Priest ridden? True......about 50 years ago but you clearly haven't been to Ireland in the last 50. That's just one outdated stereotype that sadly is (apparently) still believed by the general public outside of Ireland.

[Kaderie]

@JulianThePhilosopher

Are you fucking kidding me? We should force women to give birth against their will because... why? So the dirty brown people don't outbreed us? You do realize we have an overpopulation problem?

[TommySez]

@DLandonCole Absolutely.

[johnnyd101]

@DLandonCole ye very true the constitution of ireland was written with special preference to ireland. also the majority think you can't be irish without being catholic. As my late grandfather said to my brother in a cattle mart when he was 7yrs old "Watch out for that man there he is protestant he could have two willy's or anything"

[Redpilldown]

@DLandonCole Sorry I misunderstood your comment but you would be amazed how many people do not know how some abortions are carried out. My eldest son was watching me write the last comment and had no idea about the use of knitting needles and back street abortion. He just took it for granted that a women went to the hospital.