Irish Voters Speak Out on Landmark Abortion Referendum

Irish Voters Speak Out on Landmark Abortion Referendum

By PALKO KARASZ
APRIL 28, 2018

Ireland plans to hold a landmark referendum on abortion at the end of May. Voters will be asked to consider a repeal of Article 40.

The referendum comes as voters in the traditionally Roman Catholic and socially conservative country have shown increasingly liberal attitudes. But the campaign has been highly divisive and accompanied by fears of foreign influence.

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