{"id":252038,"date":"2018-12-20T12:12:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=252038"},"modified":"2021-04-26T15:24:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T19:24:30","slug":"irish-president-signs-bill-legalising-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/irish-president-signs-bill-legalising-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish president signs bill legalising abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Great news!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Irish President Michael D Higgins has signed the bill that legalises abortion in the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The new law allows for abortion services to be provided &#8220;on demand&#8221; up to the 12th week of a pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>It also applies in the case of a fatal foetal abnormality or where the physical or mental health of the mother is in danger.<\/p>\n<p>The country overturned its abortion ban in a referendum in May.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eighth amendment is repealed<\/li>\n<li>Irish parliament debates bill to legalise abortion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill completed its passage through the Irish parliament last Thursday with a nine-hour debate in the senate.<\/p>\n<p>Since the bill&#8217;s introduction to the Irish parliament in October, there have been some minor changes, including a decision to review the legislation after three years, rather than five years as was originally planned.<\/p>\n<p>Two different doctors will be allowed to assess a woman in early pregnancy and the offences section has been moved from the front of the bill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-46638290?fbclid=IwAR2nr_ayfIiD2duay8L9-tKrg95QcgRQBiAluFwheBy1jvxu0aEkU8e0qvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-46638290?fbclid=IwAR2nr_ayfIiD2duay8L9-tKrg95QcgRQBiAluFwheBy1jvxu0aEkU8e0qvo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Great news! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":329081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}