We have to remember though, that, up until a certain point, a foetus is not aware and is simply a clump of cells incapable of survival outside the uterus. The amendment in the Irish constitution made it illegal in all of the cases that I mentioned to abort a pregnancy, which is hardly fair considering the circumstances and the legal line should not be so black and white even in the most conservative countries. The debate about simple unplanned pregnancies being aborted is a long and detailed one considering the age at which a foetus becomes a baby is often up to debate by different groups. The point that I'm trying to make is that, regardless of your stance on normal abortions, these extreme circumstances should, at the very least, be granted exemptions from the abortion ban, which, under current Irish law, they are not.
