The Irish government is preventing a four-month pregnant 17-year old from traveling to Britain to have an abortion, even though her fetus is missing parts of its brain and skull and will be unable to live outside her womb for more than four days.

In Ireland, abortion is legal only if the mother's life is in danger. This is the same logic the Supreme Court majority embraced in the Carhart decision, which for the first time since Roe, did not contain broad protection for "women's health." How many of us really want to live in a country where a Court has to give you permission to abort a fetus that can't live outside the womb? It's almost unthinkable.