Reader's Blog: Low rate of abortion is tied to the Eighth
One thing claimed on the yes side in the Eighth Amendment debate is that abortion rates come down when the law is liberalised — it is claimed off the Guttmacher Institute Abortion Worldwide report for 2017.
This is a total misrepresentation of this report in the context of Ireland. Ireland, as the report says, is the only country out of 39 with the same abortion law that is in the developed world. Liberal laws are mainly in Europe and North America. Guttmacher groups countries with the same abortion law, then compares. Therefore it makes no comparison with Ireland on its own against other countries in the developed world.
