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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar declined to give his own position on the abortion question during a media briefing following the first Cabinet meeting of the new year. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Proposal to allow abortion up to 12 weeks may be ‘a step too far’ - Taoiseach

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has raised concern that the proposal to make abortion on request legal(...)

Mary O’Toole SC said trying to put complex provisions into the Constitution was “just simply impossible” as it was very difficult to get very complex ideas into a couple of sentences.
Abortion on demand would not follow repeal of Eighth Amendment - lawyer

The repeal of Article 40.3.3 of the constitution would not bring about “abortion on demand in(...)

Professor of law Ivana Bacik. File photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
Ivana Bacik: Students’ unions should stand firm on abortion
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  • September 23, 2017, 22:31

SPUC were seeking to imprison our four TCDSU sabbatical officers for providing information on abortion(...)

Marie Stopes no longer to charge NI women travelling to UK for abortion

(...) working with government to implement this change, which will substantially reduce the cost of abortion for(...)

Significant majority favour replacing the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution – but how?

It has been clear for some time that a significant majority wishes to see abortion legalised to(...)

The appeal is being taken by a 19-year-old woman and her mother against a law that bars women from the North who travel to England for abortions being treated for free under the NHS
Northern women appeal denial of free abortions in Britain

(...) abortion in October 2012 when she was 15. The termination and travel costs amounted to £900 (€996). She(...)

Minister for Health in the North Michelle O’Neill: received a report last week from an inter-departmental working group on abortion. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Amnesty poll finds 72 % in North favour abortion in cases of rape and incest

More than seven out of 10 people now support access to abortion in the North in cases of rape and(...)

Strong consensus for repeal of the Eighth Amendment banning abortion

(...) allow abortion in cases of rape and of fatal foetal abnormality. If, that is, the assembly – as billed(...)

A demographically and geographically representative group of 99 citizens will be selected by Red C over the coming weeks for the citizens’ assembly. File photograph: Getty Images
Citizens’ assembly to convene and debate issues in October

(...) abortion referendum and other constitutional and political issues is to begin immediately. The Government(...)

A woman holds abortion pills during a protest about reproductive rights in Dublin. The PSNI is preparing a report for the North’s Public Prosecution Service after three women went to Strand Road police station in Derry saying they had illegally procured abortion pills. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times.
Women - aged 69, 68 and 71 - tell PSNI they bought abortion pills

Strand Road police station in Derry saying they had illegally procured abortion pills. The three(...)

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