Sitting in the kitchen of her terraced home in Dublin’s suburbs, Niamh Crudden remembers the day she learned her baby was going to die.
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“When we went for the 20 week scan, we were so excited to see the baby for the first time,” she told the Telegraph.
“Suddenly the midwife went quiet. Another came in and they said her kidneys didn’t look right. The next day, a specialist told me Éabha would not survive.”
Her child was suffering from a fatal kidney abnormality; the 36-year-old wished to minimise her daughters’ suffering and terminate the pregnancy.
But in Ireland, abortion is effectively banned under the eighth amendment of the constitution, which puts the life of a woman and her unborn child…
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