{"id":188076,"date":"2010-12-16T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/16\/eu-court-rules-that-irish-abortion-law-violates-human-rights-standards\/"},"modified":"2010-12-16T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T03:06:00","slug":"eu-court-rules-that-irish-abortion-law-violates-human-rights-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/16\/eu-court-rules-that-irish-abortion-law-violates-human-rights-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Court Rules that Irish Abortion Law Violates Human Rights Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would argue that this is a another example of how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2010-12-16-abortion-ireland-court_N.htm\">Ireland is a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> world nation masquerading as a modern one by virtue of geography<\/a>, but that critique would apply to the US as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Ireland&#8217;s constitutional ban on abortion violates the<b> rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care<\/b> in life-threatening cases, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday in a judgment that harshly criticized Ireland&#8217;s long inaction on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The judgment from the Strasbourg, France-based court will put Ireland under pressure to draft a law extending limited abortion rights to women whose pregnancies represent a potentially fatal threat to their own health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A right to receive proper medical care?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that doesn&#8217;t exist here either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would argue that this is a another example of how Ireland is a 3rd world nation masquerading as a modern one by virtue of geography, but that critique would apply to the US as well: Ireland&#8217;s constitutional ban on abortion violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,971,984,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-civil-rights","category-europe","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}