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May 24, 2018

Ireland: Voter Referendum Could Repeal Anti-Choice Amendment
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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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