Ireland Abortion Laws Being Challenged

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | February 21, 2012

A NY Times article’s lead today reads:

“Abortion is back on the agenda in Ireland after a European Court of Human Rights ruling last year found the state in violation of its own Constitution on the matter.”

I am sure I am not the only one to find it strange that the European Court of Human Rights is telling the Irish how their own Constitution should be understood. For those of us in the US, it would be like an International body telling Americans that the US Supreme Court has got its commerce clause jurisprudence wrong.

The article contends that Ireland’s abortion laws are going to become more permissive due to changes in public opinion, especially the increasing estrangement of the Irish from the Catholic Church.

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