Doctors, who are keeping a pregnant woman alive in hospital, could face a legal battle to turn off the life support machine.
It's emerged that the clinically dead woman is being kept alive against her parents' wishes, who are now considering legal action.
The mother of two is currently 17 weeks pregnant with her third child and is being kept alive against the wishes of her parents, after suffering catastrophic internal injuries due to a blood clot.
She was treated at Beaumont hospital where doctors delcared her clinically brain dead and later transfered to Mullingar hospital.
Justine Murphy from the Abortion Rights Campaign says the case highlights Ireland's inhumane abortion laws.
