Posted on 09/30/2017 3:02:26 PM PDT by Ennis85
Thousands of people marched in Dublin on Saturday to demand an end to the country’s constitutional ban on abortion, one of the strictest such laws in the Western world.
The March for Choice is an annual protest against the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which enshrines a ban on abortions, but this year it was held just days after the government announced it would hold a referendum next year that could potentially change the law.
Saturday’s rally in Ireland’s capital drew demonstrators from across the country and led to solidarity events in several British cities. Crowds marched through the streets chanting slogans like “Get your rosaries off my ovaries” — a reference to the historical influence of the Roman Catholic Church on the country’s laws.
An Irish Times report estimated that 30,000 people took part. Counterdemonstrators, in small numbers, handed out fliers.
Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s prime minister, announced Tuesday that a referendum would be held in 2018 on whether to legalize abortion, at least in some circumstances. The wording of the referendum has yet to be determined, leaving uncertainty over how far it would go in overturning the restrictions.
The Eighth Amendment, passed in 1983, gives an unborn child a right to life equal to that of its mother. At the time, Ireland was seen as one of the most conservative Catholic nations in the world, but a series of church scandals and growing secularism have the country rethinking many of its government’s positions. The United Nations has called the amendment a violation of women’s rights.
Thousands of Irish women travel to Britain annually for abortions.
In Ireland, abortions are allowed only when the life of the mother is at risk, though critics say heavy penalties and a lack of clarity around the law pose risks for pregnant women.
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This one article, on a foreign country’s push for more abortion, is more consideraton than most the mainstream media have ever given to the annual March for Life right here in the U.S.A.
Start up Abortions and import Muslims, that seems to be the secular utopia these days.
Because the same guy is bankrolling these protests who is bankrolling the leftist anarchy in the U.S.:
Who's funding Ireland's abortion lobby?
MEGA-RICH AMERICANS ARE FUNDING THE ABORTION PUSH IN IRELAND. WHY?
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