The legislation was ultimately passed in the Dáil Éireann on December 5, 2018, and on December 20, 2018, it was signed into law by President Michael D.

In September 2018, the “Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018” was initiated in the Irish government, seeking to legalize abortion in the country for the first time for non-life-threatening reasons. On May 25, 2018, the Republic of Ireland voted 66.4 percent to 33.6 percent in favor of repealing the Eighth Amendment. In 2020 he became Miller Research Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.In a video for Together for Yes, Savita’s father Andanappa Yalagi said: “I hope that the people in Ireland will remember the fate of our daughter Savita on the day of the referendum and vote ‘yes’ so that what happened to us won’t happen to other families.” Velleman has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, and he is a founding co-Editor of Philosophers' Imprint. His book Konrad Morgen: the Conscience of a Nazi Judge(Palgrave Macmillan 2015), co-authored with Herlinde Pauer-Studer, is a work of empirical moral psychology using the historical rather than experimental method. His papers in bioethics are collected in Beyond Price(open-access edition, Open Book Publishers 2015). His work on the foundations of morality comprises two monographs: How We Get Along (Cambridge 2009) and Foundations for Moral Relativism (open-access second edition 2015, Open Book Publishers).

His papers on the self are collected in Self to Self (Cambridge 2006). Professor Velleman's work in the philosophy of action includes the book Practical Reflection (reprinted 2007, CSLI Publications) and a collection of papers, The Possibility of Practical Reason (open-access second edition 2015, Maize Books). DAVID VELLEMAN (Ph.D., Princeton, 1983), Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Bioethics.

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