Simon Coveney: Here’s how my thinking shifted on the Eighth Amendment

Simon Coveney: Here's how my thinking shifted on the Eighth Amendment

Simon Coveney
March 26 2018

For most people in Ireland, abortion is not something they want to talk about. It is deeply personal and involves conflicting values.

People’s views are coloured by the most joyous or painful moments in their lives, experienced either alone or with loved ones. For some their position on abortion is a religious belief sincerely held, for others it is a human rights issue. This is a subject that divides society like few others.

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