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A woman's life was saved when doctors performed Ireland's first legal abortion earlier this summer. The Irish Times reported Friday that the first termination of a pregnancy under the country's historic new abortion law was performed at National Maternity Hospital in Dublin.

Irish lawmakers are set to introduce abortion in limited cases where the mother's life is at risk, when controversial new laws go to a final vote Wednesday night.

An Irish inquest into the death of a pregnant Indian woman who was allegedly denied a termination heard from a witness Tuesday who said an abortion was refused due to a Roman Catholic ethos.