Following their legalization of same-sex marriage, the once Catholic nation of Ireland has begun to debate on whether or not to repeal the constitution's eighth amendment, making abortion entirely legal.

From Church Militant: 

On December 16, the 99-person Citizens' Assembly is closing its request for submissions on whether the amendment acknowledging an unborn child's life as important as his mother's life is to be thrown out or amended. The suggestions are to help the assembly to decide how they will approach the issue when they meet to discuss it in June 2018. So far, more than 4,500 submissions have been made.

Debate to repeal the amendment sprang forth after the UN Human Rights Commission issued a statement in June that Ireland's  abortion law subjects women to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

Established in 1983, the Eighth Amendment received a 67-percent majority support in the Irish Parliament and states, "The state acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right."

Should it be repealed, Europe's strongest anti-abortion law outside of Poland will have been stricken down. Both euthanasia and assisted suicide remain illegal in Ireland.