11. In the west, a woman could only have an abortion if this were approved by a doctor on medical, genetic or psychological grounds. 12. A High Court judge in the Irish Republic has granted an injunction preventing a fourteen-year-old rape victim from having an abortion. 13. The Supreme Court in Ireland is considering whether to overturn a High Court ruling which has prevented a fourteen-year-old rape victim from having an abortion. 14. Time and again he has used persuasion -- and on occasion shock tactics -- to try to prevent young girls having abortions. 15. But, though legal and advised, many women refuse to have abortions because it would be going against their beliefs. 16. Although both Collins and Doria said they opposed abortion, they said the proposal was not intended to stop women from having abortions. 17. And despite what some of the antiabortion activists would have you believe, those who work in the clinics are not coercing women into having abortions. 18. And she had the abortion. 19. And many people who would not have an abortion for a late-onset condition would find embryo selection acceptable. 20. And in the most intriguing subplot, a woman who is planning to have an abortion secretly tape-records Ray in the confessional and sends the tape to the bishop. |