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Ireland: UN experts urge Dublin to scrap its ban on abortion
ABORTION rights campaigners welcomed yesterday a United Nations call to lift Ireland’s ban on the procedure.
A panel of experts from the UN’s Geneva-based human rights committee said Irish woman Amanda Mellet had been subjected to discrimination and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in the name of the law.
Ms Mellet was 21 weeks pregnant in November 2011 when medics told her the foetus would die in her womb or shortly after birth.
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