Ireland, the European Union and the World Conclusion Legal developments in the United States have had a profound impact on the abortion debate in Ireland. Specifically, one can draw a direct line from the US holdings in Roe and Griswold to the constitutionalisation of the abortion issue in Ireland which led to the subsequent step by step legalisation which continues in Ireland today. Despite these reverberations, the discourse on abortion in Ireland is unlikely to emulate the US in the future. Abortion is no longer a constitutional issue in Ireland and as the 2018 referendum results show, the current position is broadly popular. 32 In contrast, if the US Supreme Court strikes down Roe, developments in conservative US states eager to ban abortion, may begin to resemble the evolution of abortion law in Ireland.
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