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Women In Ireland Have No Abortion Rights
10:30 am, August 8th | by Alisande Fitzsimons, xoJane.co.uk
Women in Ireland have no rights when it comes to abortion and – though it doesn’t concern me personally – I think abortion is too complex an issue for a modern European country to have a blanket ban on.
To be clear: even if a woman is raped, is the victim of incest or any other form of abuse, has eight children she’s struggling to feed already, is feeling suicidal because of her pregnancy, is otherwise having her life threatened by it, or has been told her baby has a life-threatening condition that means it will be seriously disabled or not survive at all, she will not be able to legally terminate the pregnancy on Irish soil.
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