In landslide vote, Ireland repeals anti-abortion amendment to constitution
NOVANEWS
By Samuel Joseph
Protest after death of Sarita Halappanavar. Photo: William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
The people of Ireland took to the polls on May 25 to cast their historic vote to whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment, which placed the life of a pregnant woman and a fetus on equal footing and effectively bans abortion. After many long and suspenseful months of campaigning by political parties and other grassroots coalitions such as Together for Yes, progressive forces succeeded and won a major victory.
The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland was adopted in September of 1983 during the Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition government and was suggested previously by the more righ...