Abortion Law Barely Changed After Woman's Death
December 20, 2012
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as posted by the channel"It's a rare event when an FT headline sets the pulses racing. When I used to work in the politics team there, we used to joke that our scoops on the latest ministerial antics had been knocked off the front page by hot news on a cement company merger in Tasmania. But when I saw, in big, bold, black and white (or pink): "Ireland to legalise abortion" I had to take a look.
Ireland is one of only two EU countries where women can't have an abortion - despite five referendums on the subject since 1983. So the suggestion that this was about to change was indeed front page news.
Of course, the story wasn't quite as interesting as the headline."*
Ireland is now allowing abortions if a mother's life is at risk after the outrageous and unnecessary death of Savita Halappanavar when she was denied an abortion. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss the only slight rule change made, and why it should have been sooner.
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