Abortion in Ireland - Constitutional Issues: Ireland & the Abortion Debate

The subject of abortion has had a controversial history in Ireland, and remains a controversial subject today. Abortion in Ireland - Constitutional Issues: Ireland & the Abortion Debate. At independence, the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act remained in force, maintaining all abortions to be illegal and subject to punishment. In response to the 1967 legalisation of abortion in Britain and the subsequent rise in the numbers of Irish women travelling to Britain each year to obtain an abortion, ...

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At independence, the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act remained in force, maintaining all abortions to be illegal and subject to punishment. In response to the 1967 legalisation of abortion in Britain and the subsequent rise in the numbers of Irish women travelling to Britain each year to obtain an abortion, anti-abortion groups in Ireland began to press for an explicit amendment to the Irish constitution banning abortion. In 1983, the Republic of Ireland by referendum amended the Constitution of Ireland to add in what became generally kn ...

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Abortion in Ireland, Abortion in Ireland - Constitutional Issues: Ireland & the Abortion Debate, Abortion in Ireland - Northern Ireland

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