D Thursday, December 10, 2009 METRO Department of Social and Family Affairs BUDGET 2010 To get information about social welfare: Log on to www.welfare.ie Call LoCall Information Line 1890 66 22 44 (9am to 9pm), Thursday 10th and Friday 11th December Drop in to your Social Welfare Local Office or Citizens Information Centre OR Log on to www.citizensinformation.ie Call LoCall Citizens Information Phone Service 1890 777 121 (9am to 9pm) what a swell ride Surfer Kelly Slater pumps his fist after surviving the white water of this wave in the second heat at the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau. Slater scored 98 out of a possible 100 points on the wave at the contest on the North Shore at Waimea Bay, Hawaii Picture: AP Honed to perfection: Cindy Jackson A WOMAN dubbed a Human Barbie doll has been named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the planets most surgically enhanced woman for the 11th year in a row. Cindy Jackson, 54, has spent more than 150,000 on her body and says she intends to keep going under the knife into her 70s. The concept of being old does not exist for me, said Ms Jackson, who moved to London 30 years ago. Instead, I prefer to consider myself honed to perfection. human Barbie doll holds 11th record abroad for abortions meant submit- ting to inhumane treatment which violated their right to privacy. Attorney General, Paul Gallagher, said the legal action undermined the courts principles. For 50 years, this court has rec- ognised the diversity of cultures and traditions in Europe, he said. It has recognised that a foetus has a right to protection by the Conven- tion (of Human Rights). Mr Gallagher added that Ireland had made keeping the abortion law a condition for holding a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and had been granted appropriate guarantees by its EU partners. The petitioners lawyer, Julie Kay, laid out the reasons that led her cli- ents to terminate their pregnancies. One of the women was an unem- ployed alcoholic who lived beneath the poverty line and was trying to regain custody of her four children when she became pregnant. Another was at risk of an extra- uterine pregnancy while the third was recovering from cancer and feared a relapse. The petitioners are not asking this court to deter- mine when life begins. They are asking for their rights to be protect- ed, the lawyer said. The court is expected to deliver a verdict within a few months. By GILBERT REILHAC abortion fight goes to the eUA GROUP of anti-abortion activ- ists waved placards saying Hands Off Ireland as they protested out- side the European Court Of Human Rights yesterday. The protest took place at the start of a legal case taken by three wom- en who say Irelands strict abortion laws endangered their health and violated their rights. The women, two Irish and one Lithuanian living in Ireland, had travelled abroad to have abortions, as Ireland allows the procedure only if the mothers life is at risk. They argued that they had to ter- minate their pregnancies because of medical and social problems, and that being forced to travel Irish law violates rights,say campaigners index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html