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The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 1982 was introduced on 2 November 1982 by Minister for Health Michael Woods.The bill introduced by the Fianna Fáil minority government proposed to add Article 40.3.3° to the Constitution, with the wording shown above.
Amendments to the Constitution of Ireland are only possible by way of referendum.A proposal to amend the Constitution of Ireland must be initiated as a bill in Dáil Éireann, be passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas (parliament), then submitted to a referendum, and finally signed into law by the president of Ireland.
The Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland is an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland which altered the provisions regulating divorce.It removed the constitutional requirement for a defined period of separation before a Court may grant a dissolution of marriage, and eased restrictions on the recognition of foreign divorces. [1]
In the buildup to the election, various politicians proposed changes to Irish abortion law, including repeal of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which guaranteed a foetal right to life. In November 2015, Kenny promised "a Citizen's Convention on the constitution, or whatever title would be appropriate" to address the issue. [11] [12]
The Eighth Amendment recognised "the unborn" as having a right to life equal to that of "the mother". [55] Accordingly, abortions could be legally conducted in Ireland only as part of a medical intervention performed to save the life of the pregnant woman, including a pregnant woman at risk of suicide. [ 56 ]
This was achieved with the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland which passed in a referendum the following year. [53] [5] Twenty-ninth: 2008: PMB: Sinn Féin: Second stage (lapsed) Rights relating to trade unions [54] Twenty-ninth: 2009: PMB: Fine Gael: Second stage (lapsed) Judges: Ease the restriction on reducing judges' pay.
In late 1983 the Eighth Amendment had passed, to ensure that abortion would not be introduced by the judiciary, in a similar manner to the US case of Roe v. Wade (1973). The X case resulted in three proposed amendments to the Irish constitution on the issue of abortion, which were submitted to three referendums all held on 25 November 1992.
Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India, extended the period of reserved seats in the parliament; Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which recognized the equal right to life of an unborn child; Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which changed Pakistan's government from a parliamentary system to a semi ...