{"id":38906,"date":"2018-12-15T18:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T13:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=38906"},"modified":"2018-12-15T18:40:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T13:10:28","slug":"ireland-passes-bill-to-legalise-abortion-following-may-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ireland-passes-bill-to-legalise-abortion-following-may-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland passes Bill to legalise abortion following May referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/ireland-passes-bill-to-legalise-abortion-following-may-referendum\/story-MnQe2NPUgso0UfEAaF7iNN.html\"><strong>Ireland passes Bill to legalise abortion following May referendum<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ireland has passed a bill to legalise abortion following a referendum in May 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The new abortion law has been named \u201cSavita Law\u201d after Savita Halappanavar who had died in 2012 after being refused abortion due to prevailing laws.<\/li>\n<li>The bill allows for abortion services to be provided \u201con demand\u201d up to the 12th week of a pregnancy, in the case of a fatal foetal abnormality or where the physical or mental health of the mother is in danger.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><em>Background<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In May 2018, the Irish electorate voted in favour of abolishing the controversial 8<sup>th<\/sup> amendment to the Irish Constitution that gave equal legal status to the lives of a foetus and the woman carrying it and thus making pregnancy terminations illegal in Ireland under any circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland passes Bill to legalise abortion following May referendum News Ireland has passed a bill to legalise abortion following a referendum in May 2018 Important facts The new abortion law has been named \u201cSavita Law\u201d after Savita Halappanavar who had died in 2012 after being refused abortion due to prevailing laws. The bill allows for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ireland-passes-bill-to-legalise-abortion-following-may-referendum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ireland passes Bill to legalise abortion following May referendum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704874705},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}