Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Twenty-fifth Amendment was a failed attempt to amend the Constitution of Ireland to tighten the constitutional ban on abortion. It would have removed the threat of suicide as a grounds for legal abortion in the state, as well as introducing new penalties for anyone performing an abortion. It was narrowly rejected in the referendum, with 49.6% approval.The full title of the proposal was the Twenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy) Bill, 2001. After it was rejected the number 25 was not reused; instead the next successful amendment of the constitution was the \"Twenty-sixth Amendment\". There has therefore been no successfully enacted \"Twenty-fifth Amendment\" of the Irish constitution. An earlier proposal called the \"Twenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 2001\" had already been introduced as a private member's bill by Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin to guarantee Irish neutrality. It had lapsed after its first reading but the existence of that bill necessitated the inclusion of the parenthetical \"(Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy)\" in the name of the later bill. However, subsequent Constitutional amendments have since included explanatory titles in parentheses."@en }
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- Twenty-fifth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_Bill,_2002_(Ireland) abstract "The Twenty-fifth Amendment was a failed attempt to amend the Constitution of Ireland to tighten the constitutional ban on abortion. It would have removed the threat of suicide as a grounds for legal abortion in the state, as well as introducing new penalties for anyone performing an abortion. It was narrowly rejected in the referendum, with 49.6% approval.The full title of the proposal was the Twenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy) Bill, 2001. After it was rejected the number 25 was not reused; instead the next successful amendment of the constitution was the \"Twenty-sixth Amendment\". There has therefore been no successfully enacted \"Twenty-fifth Amendment\" of the Irish constitution. An earlier proposal called the \"Twenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 2001\" had already been introduced as a private member's bill by Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin to guarantee Irish neutrality. It had lapsed after its first reading but the existence of that bill necessitated the inclusion of the parenthetical \"(Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy)\" in the name of the later bill. However, subsequent Constitutional amendments have since included explanatory titles in parentheses.".