It's emerged that the young woman who was refused an abortion and later had her baby delivered by Caesarean section, attempted to take her own life when she was 16 weeks pregnant.
In an interview with the Irish Times, the woman says she was a victim of rape before she came to Ireland earlier this year and she found out she was pregnant during a medical check soon after.
She says she immediately expressed her desire to die rather than bear her rapist's child, when she was eight weeks and four days pregnant.
After being admitted to hospital at 24 weeks pregnant, an expert panel agreed that she was suicidal and that a termination should be carried out.
However it was then decided that the pregnancy was too far gone and that her baby would be delivered early by c-section.
Irish Times journalist Kitty Holland - who spoke to the woman - says it's still not clear why her request for a termination was not heard until so late into her pregnancy:
