Following the death of Savita, the call for a referendum to legalize abortion increased dramatically. The horrible faith of the smiling young Indian woman was discussed everywhere. Nonetheless, it was ...

The Irish cabinet gave the go-ahead for a referendum to relax the country's strict abortion laws on Monday, 35 years after the Catholic-majority country enshrined abortion as a crime in its ...

Smyth is an Irish activist and convener of the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, a coalition of civil society groups who successfully campaigned to have Ireland's strict ban on abortion ...