Ireland is being challenged over its refusal to allow terminations of pregnancies where there is a fatal foetal abnormality.
The Centre for Reproductive Rights is taking a case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on behalf of Wexford woman Siobhán Whelan.
The New York-based organisation says having to travel outside Ireland to end a non-viable pregnancy constitutes ‘cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment’.
Ms. Whelan told Newstalk's Lunchtime Show that she and her husband are hopeful that the UN can exert pressure on the Irish government to change the law, so that another couple in a similar situation won't have to go through what they went through.
She has made an appeal to Health Minister James Reilly to do the right thing, saying "Please do the right thing and bring in legislation for fatal foetal abnormalities. I've met him in the Dáil - he was sympathetic to us. We need more than sympathy. ...what I went through was an horrendous time and to be abandoned by your country... I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy":
