EU applicant countries that wish to maintain anti-abortion measures in their national Constitutions or laws on becoming members of the EU, will need to negotiate special provisions to that effect in their individual Accession Treaties. Ireland did this in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty on European Union, in a special Protocol annexed to the Treaty.
The Irish Abortion Protocol arose because of concern in Ireland at the decision of the European Court of Justice in the 1991 Grogan case to the ...
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