A leading campaigner from the 2018 Repeal referendum movement says new laws in Texas have similarities to Ireland's previous restrictions on abortion.
Protests against the new rules in Texas, banning terminations after 6 weeks of pregnancy, are taking place across the US and the rest of the world today.
The Texas 'Heartbeat Law' also allows people to take a civil case against anybody who they suspect has aided or facilitated an abortion.
Speaking at a solidarity rally in Dublin city, campaigner Ailbhe Smyth says the new law criminalises women who need access to a termination:
"Because the clinics are terrified, because doctors who are seen to, in any way , put even a toe beyond the law, will of course be treated as criminal. All so familiar to us. 'Heartbeat Law', doctors as criminals, women as criminals. We know it. We've been through it."
