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Ireland: Voter Referendum Could Repeal Anti-Choice Amendment

HeadlineMay 24, 2018

In Ireland, campaigners are making their final pitches ahead of a referendum Friday that would roll back the republic’s Eighth Amendment, which outlaws almost all abortions. Ahead of the vote, pro-choice activists in Dublin wore red-and-white outfits evoking Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” This is pro-choice campaigner Katie Donoghue.

Katie Donoghue: “We want the three-and-a-half thousand, four thousand women a year that are having to be forced out of this country for abortion care to be able to have those rights and that healthcare here in Ireland, safely, with the support of their doctors, with the support of their peers, and without the expense of traveling to England and the trauma that’s involved, really, with having to be exiled to another country for making a basic choice about your body.”

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