She says the Eighth Amendment means that mothers, even those who want to keep their babies, do not have full rights in relation to their healthcare. “The reason that the induction happened in the first place was because of the Eighth Amendment, because I couldn’t choose to decline the induction,” she says. “People think that the Eighth Amendment is just about abortion, but it’s about so much more. The minute a woman becomes pregnant, she will fall under the spectre of the Eighth Amendment,” she says. She says he brought up the rights of the foetus under the Eighth Amendment.

Source: The Irish Times May 23, 2018 21:00 UTC