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You don't get stuff like that in Poland. Refusing to permit (legal) abortions even when allowed by the very restrictive law, prosecutions for abortions (pretty much only when something goes badly wrong and the woman ends up either did or in the emergency room), but I've never heard of anybody being put into custody to prevent them from going abroad to get an abortion.
by MarekNYC on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 03:46:54 PM EST
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She's a minor under the care of the health authority, so legally she can't travel anywhere without their permission and they don't feel they can give permission for her to travel for an abortion without her being suicidal.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue May 1st, 2007 at 02:29:03 AM EST
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Ireland to Miss D: we'd rather restrain you and drive you to the brink of suicide than allow you to abort a brainless fetus.

I love the smell of family values in the morning.

Bush is a symptom, not the disease.

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue May 1st, 2007 at 05:38:05 AM EST
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That's what happens when the anti-abortion church crowd decide that their last gasp of power will be inserting an ill-thought out abortion ban in the fucking Constitution. We've had some ludicrous number of referendums on details of the ban since and this smells like the start of a new one. You'd never get the ban inserted now, but we can't get rid of it either because that requires motivating people to come out and vote for abortion. It'll be another ten years before that can be done, I suspect.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue May 1st, 2007 at 05:44:28 AM EST
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She's not in custody:
The girl wants the court to allow her bring a legal action to prevent the HSE restraining her leaving the country for an abortion unless she presented as a suicide risk. Miss D says she was told by the HSE that it had contacted the gardaí to request that she not be permitted to leave the State and she wants the court to direct the HSE to advise the gardaí that it agrees to her travelling to the UK.
(Irish Times)

In practice, all she needs to do is get in a car, head across the border to the North and travel from there to the UK. I can't see that the cops could catch her. However, that's pretty fucked up and would involve someone else in what would be legally considered child abduction ...
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue May 1st, 2007 at 02:32:12 AM EST
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