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- A. and B. v EHB and C. [1997] IEHC 176, commonly known as the C Case, was a legal case in Ireland on whether a thirteen-year-old girl (known as C) who had become pregnant as a result of rape and was suicidal could be permitted to travel abroad to obtain an abortion. She was in the care of the Eastern Health Board (EHB), an organ of the Irish state, and the abortion was resisted by her parents, the plaintiffs in the case. Abortion law in Ireland at the time of the case made abortion inaccessible within Ireland; however, in the X Case (1992), the Supreme Court had ruled that abortion was permissible under the Constitution where there was a threat to a woman's life, including a risk of suicide. (en)
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- [1997] IEHC 176; [1998] 1 IR 464; [1998] 1 ILRM 460 (en)
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- A. and B., Plaintiffs, v. Eastern Health Board, District Judge Mary Fahy and C., Defendants (en)
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- Abortion (en)
- Constitution of Ireland (en)
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- Right to life (en)
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- at a psychiatric level, abortion would appear to cause more problems than it solves, even were we to judge the issue on its medical implications alone. One this last point, it is clear from the significant risk of psychological problems following abortion, particularly among those who have abortions in their teens or who are ambivalent and/or unsupported, that this unhappy child would be better served if she received the highest degree of medical and psychological support along with the continuation of her pregnancy (en)
- I have many concerns about the decision. .. I have deep reservations about the re-affirmation by the courts of the notion that there are circumstances where abortion is medically justifiable. The testimony in the X case, relating to suicidal tendencies, was already controversial (en)
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- A. and B. v EHB and C. [1997] IEHC 176, commonly known as the C Case, was a legal case in Ireland on whether a thirteen-year-old girl (known as C) who had become pregnant as a result of rape and was suicidal could be permitted to travel abroad to obtain an abortion. She was in the care of the Eastern Health Board (EHB), an organ of the Irish state, and the abortion was resisted by her parents, the plaintiffs in the case. Abortion law in Ireland at the time of the case made abortion inaccessible within Ireland; however, in the X Case (1992), the Supreme Court had ruled that abortion was permissible under the Constitution where there was a threat to a woman's life, including a risk of suicide. (en)
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