# x-case - Today’s News
Heckling, James Reilly leaving early, and questions about term limits on abortion – the first day of the Oireachtas hearings on abortion legislation had a lot of drama. Here’s what happened.
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# x-case - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
The hearings will be broadcast live from this Friday on television and the internet.
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# x-case - Friday 3 May, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Photocall Ireland has dug out this photo from the archives showing how abortion has remained divisive over the decades.
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# x-case - Thursday 2 May, 2013
Fine Gael’s weekly parliamentary party meeting saw over five hours of intense discussion on the draft abortion bill.
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Anti-abortion group SPUC says the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill could lead to widespread abortion.
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Irish women have been denied their constitutional right to adequate maternal healthcare but the new draft law changes that, argues Labour TD Ciara Conway.
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Public hearings on the draft of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 are likely to take place later this month.
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# x-case - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
So – we now have a draft ‘heads of bill’. Here’s what happens as the Government tries to turn it into law.
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Government said that the bill would provide “legal clarity for the medical profession”.
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# x-case - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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Enda Kenny was speaking in the Dáil this afternoon after the Cabinet had earlier suspended its meeting without agreement on a draft abortion law.
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Ministers have dispersed after a lengthy all-morning meeting and will reconvene at 5:30pm to try and hammer out a deal.
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Coalition partners Fine Gael and Labour are due to set out conditions under which abortions can be legally carried out in Ireland.
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# x-case - Monday 29 April, 2013
The Sinn Féin president has called on the government to publish proposed legislation dealing with the X Case.
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Brian Walsh says the Oireachtas hearings found abortion cannot treat suicidal ideation – and won’t allow it be included.
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# x-case - Friday 26 April, 2013
The psychiatrists, who responded to a nationwide survey undertaken by four colleagues, say abortion is not a treatment for suicidal ideation.
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# x-case - Thursday 25 April, 2013
The junior minister heavily criticises the journalist Olivia O’Leary over her recent radio column in which she said it was time to “kick the Taliban out of our constitution”.
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# x-case - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
In a strongly-worded statement, the College of Psychiatry in Ireland has criticised proposals that as many as 12 doctors could be involved in assessing the suicidal risk in a woman seeking an abortion.
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# x-case - Monday 22 April, 2013
Officials from SIPTU, UNITE and the Women’s Committee of the ICTU presented a statement to Taoiseach Enda Kenny earlier this morning which called for immediate legislation on the issue.
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# x-case - Sunday 21 April, 2013
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Labour Minister Pat Rabbitte said today he had not seen the heads of bill, amid reports that Labour and Fine Gael are clashing over the plan.
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# x-case - Tuesday 16 April, 2013
Peadar ToibÃn says he is “determined” to ensure that he is on the same page as Sinn Féin when the Dáil votes on abortion laws.
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# x-case - Sunday 14 April, 2013
Things we learned, loved and shared today…
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# x-case - Friday 12 April, 2013
The group said her case highlights that a ‘real and substantial risk to the life’ of a woman can develop within a matter of hours.
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# x-case - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Writing on TheJournal.ie this morning, the Labour leader insists that abortion legislation wil be introduced this year.
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Labour has had to make some tough choices in government but, as a result, Ireland can be more confident about its future, writes Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore.
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# x-case - Monday 4 March, 2013
In a wide-ranging interview with TheJournal.ie, the Sinn Féin president also revealed which government policies his party actually supports and explained why Croke Park II is a bad deal.
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Twenty-one years on from the X case, legislation to protect women’s lives is still not in place, writes Alison Spillane.
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# x-case - Friday 1 March, 2013
The campaign group wants to put pressure on the government to legislate for abortion in Ireland under the terms of the controversial and divisive judgement in the Supreme Court X Case.
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# x-case - Friday 22 February, 2013
Fighting each other will get us nowhere – Ireland needs to have a genuinely respectful and mature debate about this serious issue, writes Laura Larkin.
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# x-case - Friday 15 February, 2013
The former taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael argues that including suicidal risk in forthcoming legislation is not consistent with Article 40.3.3 which protests the life of the unborn child.
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# x-case - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Minister Howlin told the Dáil that although Minister Reilly still has not seen the leaked draft report, Savita’s husband Praveen would be the first person to get the published report.
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# x-case - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
The Fianna Fáil leader told TheJournal.ie he doesn’t know how many doctors should assess suicidal risk and said he is not currently in favour of widening abortion legislation to include pregnancies as a result of rape.
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The Evening Herald has obtained a draft HSE report into the death of the Indian woman at University Hospital Galway last October.
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# x-case - Monday 11 February, 2013
The Ipsos MRBI poll in the Irish Times also finds that only 37 per cent of people believe abortion should be permitted where a woman deems it to be in her best interests.
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# x-case - Sunday 10 February, 2013
The Elphin Diocesan Pastoral Council has asked all public representatives to oppose the Government’s proposal to legislate on the basis of the X case.
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# x-case - Sunday 27 January, 2013
A Behaviour & Attitudes poll finds that nearly 60 per cent of people favour abortion where the “mother displays suicidal feelings”.
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# x-case - Monday 21 January, 2013
Junior Minister Lucinda Creighton has said a bill including the ‘risk of suicide’ could open the floodgates. But do you think it should be included in legislation for the X Case?
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The junior minister is drafting her own bill which excludes the risk of suicide from legislation that will comply with the Supreme Court ruling in the X Case.
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