Ireland

Saw this in the news today: Death and Suffering: The Story Behind Ireland’s Abortion Ban and its Reversal

The abortion situation in Ireland first came to my attention when Savita Halappanavar died there in 2012. She had a miscarraige but the fetus was not expelled. The hospital refused to remove it ("This is a Catholic country") and Savita died of sepsis.

You'd think a church that had sexually and physically abused so many Irish childre, that had sold women's babies to the highest bidders at the Magdalene Laundries, would stop there, but they wanted to impose an abortion ban on Irish women as well with the Pro-Life Amendment Campaign. It resulted in the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland. The law they crafted made the right to life of the fetus equal to the right to life of the mother.

It took 35 years, but the ban was finally overturned by a referendum in 2018 that passed with a 2/3 majority (Ireland Votes to End Abortion Ban, in Rebuke to Catholic Conservatism ...

I don't think it's a coincidence that the Justices on the Supreme Court who voted to overturn Roe were all raised Catholic (Anti-Roe justices a part of Catholicism’s conservative wing).

I hope it doesn't take us 35 years to get back women's constitutional right to full reproductive care.