women’s reproductive autonomy. Nevertheless, public and parliamentary scrutiny of cases involving Ireland’s abortion laws is … has consequences for access to abortion and the care of women in pregnancy generally. Long-awaited legislation to give … effect to the narrow constitutional right to abortion was enacted into law in 2013. In 2014, a guidance document for health …

BackgroundThe Irish government enacted a new, significantly liberalised law on abortion in 2018 and doctors began … providing abortion care in January 2019. The Irish public health service, the Health Service Executive, established a dedicated … abortion information and support service called MyOptions to facilitate abortion access and provide non-directive counselling …

This paper takes as its focus the constituional protections afforded to those seeking abortion rights in the USA …, Ireland and Germany, juxtaposing the different constitutional protections in each nation. Drawing on both Frankenburg and … Kommers, this paper will examine the importance of comparative constitutional law in dealing with such issues as abortion in …