The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS) Ireland has called for the repeal of the 'pro-life' Eight Amendment to the Constitution on foot of the 'appalling ordeal' the Irish health and legal systems have forced a pregnant woman to endure.

It said the case of a young woman refused an abortion and who went on hunger strike before eventually being delivered by Caesarean section highlighted the massive flaws that it and other reproductive rights organisations have been pointing out with the abortion legislation since it was drafted.

AIMS Ireland co-chair Jene Hinds Kelly said:"Two psychiatrists agreed that the woman was suicidal and should have access to the abortion she had been requesting since she first found out she was pregnant at eight weeks' gestation.

"However, a single obstetrician overruled this, despite agreeing the woman was suicidal. Instead, she was denied access to the abortion she was legally entitled to, detained until after her pregnancy was deemed viable, and finally coerced into a Caesarean section. Where is any care for her life and health and well-being in all of this horror?"

AIMS claimed migrant women, traveller women and women of colour are disproportionately represented in the tragedies and negative outcomes of pregnancy here.

"We saw this with Dhara Kivlehan, with Bimbo Onanuga, with Savita Halappanavar, and now another atrocity has been perpetrated upon another vulnerable migrant woman. It is time and beyond to repeal the Eighth Amendment."

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