Ireland, the land of my father’s family, is gone. Just 6 men entered the only seminary left in the whole country this fall and that was the least in 222 years they have abortion and gay marriage now. Their grand iman is a guy named Liam Egan. My heart breaks.
Abortion, not yet, albeit Irish women have gone to England for decades to get those thanks to the UK’s Abortion Act. (That law does not apply in Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man, BTW; only England, Scotland and Wales. “Conservative” politicians, however, supported an amendment by a Labour politician that would give Northern Irish women “free” NHS abortions instead of charging them £900 [currently $1,196] as they presently do.)
The Republic of Ireland holds a referendum on its own Eighth Amendment next year (the specific outlawing of abortion).