# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Sunday 13 May, 2018
The government’s legal advice and the position of the courts on the Eighth Amendment have tied the hands of legislators in the past.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Friday 16 June, 2017
The public will vote on repealing the Eighth Amendment next year.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 14 June, 2017
How many more girls are our government prepared to abuse while they delay a referendum on the Eighth Amendment, asks Gerry Edwards.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 31 January, 2017
A caller into the Dublin Talks show was also said to have “made allusions to her complicity in what he considered to be murder”.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Thursday 10 November, 2016
# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Sunday 11 September, 2016
An Irish couple who are expecting a baby, and who received a diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality, write about their ordeal for TheJournal.ie.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Thursday 7 July, 2016
It was defeated by 95 votes to 45.
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And can it get passed?
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 6 July, 2016
“I do not want to terminate my baby’s life but he does not have one.”
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 5 July, 2016
Cabinet agrees not to take a position on bill tabled by TD Mick Wallace
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The bill is being tabled by Mick Wallace and is under discussion by Cabinet today.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Thursday 30 June, 2016
Fine Gael’s Kate O’Connell was speaking before the Dáil this evening.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Thursday 23 June, 2016
TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck attempts to resolve an argument over abortion facts on Tonight with Vincent Browne last night.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Saturday 27 February, 2016
Michelle and Vin Manley spent three hours with their son before he died – but they say there’s no right decision for couples faced with the same decision as they were.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Sunday 3 January, 2016
While over 90% of abortions in England are performed in the first trimester of pregnancy, fatal foetal abnormalities and pregnancies resulting from sexual violence are often the exception.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 2 December, 2015
Arlette Lyons writes about her experience of having to travel to Liverpool to have a termination when she found out her baby had no chance of survival.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 1 December, 2015
The Senator said that there are babies with “life-limiting conditions”.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Monday 30 November, 2015
“It does not protect morals to export the problem to another jurisdiction and then turn a blind eye.”
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Monday 19 October, 2015
The couple decided to highlight their story as part of Amnesty International’s campaign to decriminalise abortion in Ireland.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Monday 6 July, 2015
Labour has denied there is any connection between Michael McNamara’s removal from the health committee and his attempt to hold hearings on abortion.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 17 June, 2015
I never knew all the things that could go wrong with a pregnancy… until they happened. Life can throw your dreams upside down.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Friday 29 May, 2015
Michael McNamara’s not having a great week.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Saturday 25 April, 2015
The People Before Profit TD recounted his own personal tragedy in a Dáil debate in February.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Sunday 15 February, 2015
A change in the law could help to establish a culture where a ‘choice’ soon becomes an expectation.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Friday 13 February, 2015
81% of respondents to a recent poll indicated they wanted abortion allowed in cases of fatal foetal abnormality. Yet 88% of TDs abstained or voted no on the issue.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 10 February, 2015
The Dáil has voted to reject a bill providing for abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.
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The precedent set by the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act would see a raped woman questioned, put on trial, and forced to relive the worst experiences of her life.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Saturday 7 February, 2015
A bill proposed by Clare Daly will go before the Dáil on Tuesday.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Friday 6 February, 2015
However, the Health Minister said he would be advocating for Fine Gael to campaign for an abortion referendum in the next election.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 4 February, 2015
The government will vote against a bill from TD Clare Daly on termination for medical reasons.
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TDs are once again being asked to legislate for terminations for medical reasons.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Thursday 16 October, 2014
A poll this week found most Irish people favoured legalising abortion “where the foetus will not be born alive” – but that question is misleading, writes Niamh Ui Bhriain.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 26 August, 2014
There have been reports that Irish women have had to wait for up to a month for an appointment.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Monday 25 August, 2014
The Tánaiste is also in favour of repealing the 8th Amendment.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 29 July, 2014
Enshrined into law and sanctioned in social service provision is this attitude: women in Ireland are vessels to be filled and emptied at men’s discretion.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 15 July, 2014
Do people campaign against families faced with the heartbreaking decision to turn off the life support machine of a loved one? Cases of fatal foetal abnormality are precisely the same.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
I noticed the consultant becoming quieter and more serious. ‘Have you ever heard of anencephaly?’ he said.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Monday 24 March, 2014
I cried all day at the thought that I would have to go to a clinic in London and endure people throwing holy water and condoms at me because my nation would not help me when I needed it most.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Friday 14 February, 2014
I am angry at the hijackers and manipulators of language who try to tell us that our child was only ‘sick’ or ‘disabled’, who refuse to understand that fatal foetal abnormalities are just that – fatal.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Thursday 5 December, 2013
David Ford said he wants a public consultation into changing abortion laws to allow women carrying babies with fatal foetal abnormalities to have a termination.
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