Irish law allows for abortions to save the life of the mother. I suspect that there is a lot more going on than the news story is saying. The doctors may have made a mistake, but Irish laws regarding abortion are not to blame.
This is just another primitive cheap-shot.
Medically-necessary abortions have always been allowed under Catholic doctrine.
My mother, when pregnant with her eighth and last child (I was second-from-last), developed some sort of condition which causes the usually-okay blood-pressure to skyrocket during pregnancy, and if it goes on too long, the woman goes into shock and dies.
It's now pharmaceutically-treated, but we're talking decades ago, when it wasn't.
I was two years old at the time, and not especially bright, so I have no memory of the event, but from written records, it appears that while my mother was assured, both medically and spiritually, that an abortion was needed to save her life, in spite of all this, she herself decided to continue carrying the child.
My younger brother was delivered several weeks prematurely, and by Caesarian section, probably at about that point her blood-pressure was skyrocketing out of control. Both mother and infant recovered.
Medically-necessary abortions have always been allowed under Roman Catholic doctrine; but they have to be medically-
necessary.