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Cast your mind back to 1983 and ask yourself if 1983-you would have felt deprived not knowing the latest from Ireland unless and until a non-Irish news source
by rmc 14y ago
Cast your mind back to 1983 and ask yourself if 1983-you would have felt deprived not knowing the latest from Ireland unless and until a non-Irish news source
Fun fact: What happened in 1983 in Ireland was relevant to India in 2012.
In 1983, Ireland passed a pro-life consitutional amendment, banning abortion in all cases (in practice)¹. In 2012, an dentist from India living in Ireland who was miscarrying and dying asked for a termination to save her life, she was refused one, and eventually died².
¹: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_of_the_Constit...
²: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar
- tedunangst 14y agoYes, if you travel to another country its laws will affect you. Is your claim that if the eighth amendment had been published in Indian newspapers in 1983 that this would not have happened?