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Ireland  

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  • Ireland online video November 2012 AFP/Getty Images Footage by Sky News/Getty Images A 2010 report concerning the pressure on Ireland to relax its abortion laws. The issue has become prominent because the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Ireland violated the human rights of a woman in remission from cancer who wished to have an abortion because she feared that the disease would return during pregnancy. [Source: The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World; Ireland]

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