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“Pregnant women and girls risk putting their health and lives in danger if they remain in Ireland,” says an Amnesty report on Ireland’s abortion laws
Savita Halappanavar’s death in October 2012 from infection, after she was not allowed to terminate her pregnancy forced international attention on the controversial abortion laws in Ireland, but according to Amnesty International, thousands of women in the country continue being at risk and at least 4,000 travel outside for an abortion every year at “considerable mental, financial and physical cost.”
In a report ‘She is not a criminal’ released on Tuesday, Amnesty International highlights the risks that women in Ireland continue to face, owing to the orthodox law that bars abortion. Abortion in Ireland is illegal, unless the life of the mother is in danger.
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