The Pain and Promise of Europe's Abortion Laws

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The Abortion Support Network (ASN), a charity that helps people in Europe access abortion through telemedicine or by supporting travel, says every three days they hear from someone in Ireland looking for help.
47% : The staunchly Catholic country had overwhelmingly voted to scrap the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution, under which abortion was essentially illegal -- one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world.
42% : Under Irish law, abortion is permissible as long as the person is less than 12 weeks pregnant, but at this point many are not yet aware that they are.
37% : Setting aside the US states that have banned abortions post-Roe, this is actually a tighter limit than tends to be in place in most US states that still allow abortion.
34% : "Abortion is still illegal in Ireland," says Fitzsimons.

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