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Repeal referendum: Historic victory. We won’t be left behind!
25th May was a momentous and historic day – two thirds of voters in the South voted to repeal the anti-choice eighth amendment from the constitution, demanding the right of women and pregnant people to access abortion services. Unsurprisingly, it was women, young and LGBT+ people and working-class communities that were to the fore in this revolt. The result was a body blow to the Catholic Church's domination of Irish society which, in living memory, led to such horrors as the imprisonment of women in Magdalene laundries and state-sanctioned abduction of children from unmarried mothers.
Historic victory for social progress: Landslide vote to repeal Ireland’s abortion laws
No delay can now be justified. There is nothing to stop the Dail [Irish parliament] to move quickly to enact legislation to give effect to the proposals from the Oireachtas Committee. No more people should suffer.
Abortion Rights: What will repeal of the eighth mean for the North?
If a movement is built on clear, cross-community basis, all the political parties and Westminster can come under pressure to act on this issue and the right to choose can be won.
Southern Repeal referendum: Establishment on the retreat – Step up fight for abortion rights, North & South!
Victory is in sight for the movement to repeal the anti-abortion 8th Constitutional Amendment in the South. The…