DUBLIN: Irish lawmakers voted on Friday to back controversial new legislation that will allow abortion in limited cases, after the death last year of an Indian woman because of complications from her pregnancy.

One junior minister quit her post after voting against the bill, the focus of bitter debate in mainly Catholic Ireland. She faces exclusion from the ruling Fine Gael party.

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