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Áras
an Uachtaráin said on Thursday that President Michael D Higgins had
signed the Bill on abortion and it had become law. File photograph: Tom
Honan
A Bill that will
give women access to abortion for the first time in the history of the
State has been signed into law by President Michael D Higgins.
A statement released by Áras an
Uachtaráin on Thursday evening said: “Having considered the Health
(Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018, the President has
signed the Bill and it has accordingly become law.”
The Bill finished its final stage
in the Seanad earlier this month after weeks of sometimes heated debate
in both the Dáil and Seanad. It follows a referendum in May on the
removal of the Eighth Amendment from the Constitution, which guaranteed
the unborn and mother an equal right to life. Some 67 per cent of the
electorate voted to repeal the amendment.
Minister for Health Simon Harris
will now have to sign a number of statutory instruments to give effect
to the Bill now that it is signed into law by the President.
The Bill was signed by the
President as the Medical Council deleted provisions from its code which
will mean that no ethical guidance on performing abortions will be in
place for doctors when the legislation comes into force next month.
