Council of Europe calls on Ireland to decriminalise Abortion
RTE has reported that the Council has called for decriminalisation of Abortion in Ireland....Interesting timing considering everything that will be happening over the next couple of months Referendum wise.
Council of Europe calls for abortion rights
Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:57The Council of Europe has called on Ireland to decriminalise abortion.
The Council's Committee on Equal Opportunities says all member states should guarantee women the right to abortion.
The report calls for abortion be decriminalised, saying a ban does not reduce the number of abortions but can lead to more dangerous and clandestine procedures.
Via RTE.ie
Labels: Abortion, Council of Europe
posted by John James at
9:18 PM
2 Comments:
That's interesting...America's working on criminalizing it, and Ireland's trying to make it legal again...I wonder what the other countries are doing about abortion.
Well to be fair psycoticsinginchick, Ireland never had it legal to begin with. It is one of a handful of European states where Abortion is still Illegal. We should of course legalized it in the early 1990s on foot of the 'X' case and the referendum on the issue but no government has ever had the balls to do it. this despite the current Health Minister's comments a number of years ago stating, that if Ireland was an island country in the middle of the atlatinc and didnt have the UK next door, we would have had abortion legalized a long time ago. It suits people here to export a problem and sustain the 'purity' of the country and then chastize those who have abortions by not even recognizing the decision they have undertaken.
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