O (A Minor) & Anor v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform

The second-named applicant was pregnant and sought judicial review of her deportation order on the ground, inter alia, that her unborn child had a legal personality with rights under the Constitution, including the right to be born under Article 2 of the Constitution and that the deportation would infringe the right to life of the unborn in that, inter alia, there was no stable system of antenatal care in the country to which the applicant was to be deported.