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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ireland-must-reform-abortion-laws.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Pro-life protesters during a demonstration in the centre of Dublin" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-ireland-must-reform-abortion-laws.jpg" alt="Pro-life protesters during a demonstration in the centre of Dublin"/></a></p>
<p>Ireland has been ordered to reform complex abortion laws after European judges ruled that a ban violated the rights of a woman who feared a cancer relapse during an unplanned pregnancy.</p>
<p>The woman was being treated for a rare form of the disease and was forced to travel to the UK in 2005 for a termination because of fears that she or the unborn child would fall seriously ill.</p>
<p>Known only as &#8216;C&#8217; the woman, a Lithuanian, said she could not get clear advice in Ireland and the country&#8217;s limited ban stigmatised and humiliated her and put her health at risk.</p>
<p>The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Government failed to give domestic courts clear direction on when abortion is legal. No deadline for enforcing new abortion laws was set by the Strasbourg court.</p>
<p>Despite the ruling, Irish Health Minister Mary Harney suggested the country would not be thrown into a contentious fourth referendum, 27 years after the first. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to pretend that there is an easy solution. We have to legislate, there&#8217;s no doubt about that,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Susan McKay, chief executive of the National Women&#8217;s Council of Ireland, accused the Government of putting up a shameful defence of broken Irish law.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Government tried to claim that its cowardly position was based on profound moral values. This was a shameful defence. How can forcing women with life-threatening illnesses to go abroad for a medical procedure be moral?&#8221; Ms McKay asked. &#8220;The decision to have an abortion is not a happy one or one that can be lightly taken but there are circumstances in which it is necessary.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ireland has had three referenda on abortion law: 1983, affirming an outright ban; 1992, allowing women to legally travel for a termination and access information while maintaining the domestic ban; 2002, when by a margin of less than 1% of the vote the ban was upheld.</p>
<p>However, a series of court judgments complicated issues such as the X case of a 14-year-old girl who became pregnant after being raped. She was allowed to travel because of the real and substantial risk to her life from suicide.</p>
<p>As it stands in Ireland, a woman is allowed an abortion if her life is at risk from high blood pressure, an ectopic pregnancy or cervical cancer. The issue of suicide and other health complications are not set down in law.</p>
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