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Miss D case to be heard in full
[Posted: Wed 02/05/2007 - www.irishhealth.com]
The High Court in Dublin will hear the country's latest abortion challenge tomorrow.
Mr Justice Liam McKechnie found yesterday that the case of a young woman seeking to go to Britain for an abortion must be dealt with quickly.
She is in the care of the Health Service Executive, and says the HSE is preventing her from travelling to Britain for an abortion.
The young woman, who is 17 and known as Miss D, has learned that her baby has a condition which means it could live only a few hours after delivery.
She was taken into care last February due to difficult family circumstances.
The HSE says it will not comment on individual cases.
The girl, known as Miss D, is challenging the court order placing her in care, because it stops her from leaving the state.
She is also asking the High Court to overrule the HSE's decision to ask gardai to stop her.
By some estimates more than 100,000 Irish women have travelled to Britain for abortions since 1983.
The Irish Times newspaper reports today that the HSE recently paid for a UK abortion for an Irish mother whose baby had serious congenital abnormalities which mean it could not survive after birth.
Abortion is illegal here except in cases where there is found to be a 'real and substantial risk' to the life of the mother. This includes a risk from suicide.
The law was modified by the Supreme Court after a 1992 case. In that a 14-year-old girl was made return to Ireland from Britain after her family asked gardai if genetic material from the foetus could be used to prosecute her rapist.
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