Let’s stop talking and introduce overdue legislation on X case

SAVITA Halappanavar was just 11-years-old when the X case judgment was handed down. Today, she’s a martyr to the political cowardice that, for two decades, refused to implement that ruling.

In 2010, the European Court of Human Rights found that the Irish State had breached a cancer patient’s human rights by failing to have a legislative, or regulatory, framework in place outlining her right to a life-saving abortion.

At the end of this month Government representatives will travel to Strasbourg to update the court on the progress that has been made in implementing those mandated changes to our antiquated abortion regime.