Ireland held out the longest before embracing abortion. This is reassuring news.
Actually, Northern Ireland never embraced abortion; it was the last place in the British Isles that rejected it until Westminster forced it on them.
When the voters of the Republic of Ireland overwhelmingly approved abortion in 2018, I predicted on this very site that the worldwide pro-life movement’s fortunes would soon take a turn for the better. Ireland is notoriously backward as a culture and society, and they have an uncanny knack for jumping on bandwagons at the 11th hour. For the Irish to go all-in on abortion was a contrarian indicator. Thus it came as little surprise that Roe v. Wade soon fell