Mellet v Ireland is a finding from the United Nations Human Rights Committee in 2016 that Ireland's abortion laws violated human rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by banning abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality and by forcing Amanda Mellet to travel to the United Kingdom for an abortion. == Background == === Amanda Mellet === Amanda Mellet became pregnant in 2011.
Mellet v Ireland is a finding from the United Nations Human Rights Committee in 2016 that Ireland's abortion laws violated human rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by banning abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality and by forcing Amanda Mellet to travel to the United Kingdom for an abortion. == Background == === Amanda Mellet === Amanda Mellet became pregnant in 2011.
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