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WOMEN CHALLENGE IRISH ABORTION BAN IN EUROPEAN COURT
Posted by Laura on December 10, 2009
Tags: Abortion Rights, News, Women
In a case being watched closely in other Catholic countries such as Poland, Spain and Malta, the Strasbourg court heard the arguments for the ban from the Irish government and from lawyers for the one Lithuanian and two Irish women.
The three women, known only as A, B and C, travelled to Britain to have abortions and claim their health was imperilled and that they were traumatised and humiliated by the Irish anti-abortion laws. “All three women complain that the impossibility for them to have an abortion in Ireland made the procedure unnecessarily expensive, complicated and traumatic. In particular, that restriction stigmatised and humiliated them and risked damaging their health and, in the third applicant’s case, even her life,” said a court statement.
Excerpt from The Guardian Article. To see in full go here.
Tags for this post:Abortion Rights, News, Women