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Ms Y, the asylum seeker who unsuccessfully sought an abortion after arriving in Ireland pregnant as a result of alleged rape, was arrested in Liverpool five weeks before her baby was born by Caesarean section, The Irish Times has learned. She was held by police for more than 11 hours after being arrested for illegally entering the UK from Ireland on July 1st last. She is believed to have travelled by ferry to Liverpool. Ms Y found out she was pregnant on April 4th this year, shortly after arriving in Ireland on March 28th.

Ms Y held in UK after failing to obtain abortion here

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Dr Anthony McCarthy also says the current law on abortion in Ireland is too narrow to help the vast majority of women who are distressed during pregnancy. In an interview with the Irish Times, the woman says she expressed her desire to die after finding out she was eight weeks pregnant and attempted suicide at 16 weeks. The woman says she immediately expressed her desire to die rather than bear her rapist's child. This was when she was eight weeks and four days pregnant. It is understood the woman - who is not Irish - could not leave the country to have a termination, due to her legal status. She told the Irish Times that "in my culture it is a great shame to be pregnant if not married." She is said to have been seeing a counsellor between her eighth and sixteenth weeks of pregnancy, but was not seen by a psychiatrist during that time.

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