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...pregnant 14-year-old, allegedly molested and raped by her best friend's father, stirred an international furor when Irish authorities forbade her to seek an abortion abroad. Last week the Irish Supreme Court overturned a High Court ruling that had prevented her from traveling to Britain to escape Ireland's near absolute prohibition on abortion. The girl's circumstance -- and her reported threat to kill herself if forced to bear the child -- had pitched Prime Minister Albert Reynolds headlong into a no-win political crisis within a week of taking office. He therefore greeted last week's ruling with...
Cambridge Center for Adult Education--presents The Monastic Haunts of Ireland by George Mahoney. Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge. Thursday, March 5, 10:30 a.m. $1.50 general; $1 for seniors...
...classic case of compassion versus the law. And so far, in an abortion controversy that has rocked Ireland and outraged much of Europe, the law has the upper hand. The controversy involves a 14-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by her best friend's father. Last week a high-court judge barred the teenager from traveling to Britain to get an abortion, even though the victim, now 12 weeks pregnant, has declared that she would rather kill herself than have the child...
...decision, which is being appealed to the country's Supreme Court, sparked protests across Ireland and Britain. Hundreds of demonstrators marched in Dublin and London, carrying placards reading RAPISTS-1, WOMEN-0 and IRELAND DEFENDS MEN'S RIGHT TO PROCREATE BY RAPE. Human-rights advocates declared that the ruling violated a European Community law allowing citizens to travel to another E.C. nation to obtain legally available services such as abortion. Roman Catholic Ireland is alone among the 12 E.C. members in imposing a total ban on abortion...
Abortion has been illegal in Ireland since the 1860s. When pressure to moderate the law began rising in the 1970s and early '80s, the Catholic Church and antiabortion activists pushed the government to hold a 1983 referendum incorporating the ban into the constitution. After a bitter campaign, the pro- lifers won the vote by a two-thirds majority. The resulting constitutional amendment obliges the government "to respect . . . defend and vindicate" the right to life of the unborn. No exceptions are allowed except in some cases where the mother's life is in danger...