Irish abortion survey finds majority of people support decriminalisation

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Irish abortion survey finds majority of people support decriminalisation

Amnesty poll reveals shift in attitudes with 65% saying they want abortion
decriminalised and 81% favouring some liberalisation of legislation

Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent
Wednesday 8 July 2015 11.30 BST

Two-thirds of Irish people want abortion decriminalised, according to a survey that signals a major shift in views on a woman’s right to choose in a country that still outlaws most terminations.

Eight out of 10 people polled for Amnesty International favoured some liberalisation of the law, and 65% said abortion should be decriminalised.

Two years ago, Ireland’s parliament, the Dáil, passed legislation allowing for abortion in extremely limited cases of medical emergencies or when there is risk of suicide if pregnancy goes to full term. Under the law, doctors and medical professionals have the right ultimately to determine if a woman’s life is at risk in these circumstances.

Abortion remains unavailable, for instance, to Irish women who are raped or whose pregnancies are doomed as a result of foetal abnormalities.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/08/irish-abortion-survey-majority-people-support-decriminalisation

[Warpy]

1. Until very recently, Irish doctors had to saw a woman's pelvis apart

if she was too narrow to allow a big headed baby to be born. The Caesarian section was frowned upon by the church because it limited the number of future children she could produce to two or three instead of the eight to ten they preferred.

Let that sink in for a minute.

I'm not a bit surprised the Irish have had it with the church's war against women. They have suffered more because of it than most elsewhere, with the exception of El Salvador and a couple of other churchly hell holes.

And Rome wonders why so many of us left.