Para 76) AI and JS3 informed that the 2018 Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act (the Act) provided for abortion on request up to 12 weeks, subject to a mandatory three-day waiting period, and permitted abortion under limited circumstances after 12 weeks, namely emergencies, when pregnancy poses a "risk to the life, or of serious harm to the health" of the pregnant person, or when a "condition [is] likely to lead to death of foetus" before or within 28 days of birth. JS3 and AI contended that the law was framed in terms of criminal offences, rather than access to healthcare, and that the three-day waiting period prohibited some women from accessing care in Ireland. JS3 indicated that, since the Act used the word “woman”, it excluded transgender, intersex and non-binary people.
Para 37) CEDAW was concerned that medically irreversible and unnecessary sex assignment surgery and other treatments were reportedly performed on intersex children.