Just the other
day in Dublin, Ireland was it repealed to a restrictive ban on abortions. With their
conservative patriarchy they have been dealing with rebukes to the Roman
Catholic Church. With a surprising landslide on the vote on Saturday it
cemented the liberal shift when there is a right-wing-populism on the rise in
Europe, along with the Trump administration imposing on abortion rights here in
the United States. Only three years ago Ireland had a gay man as the prime
minister and voted in another referendum to allow same sex marriage. From these
changes happening it has shown a shift in the past 10-20 years in Ireland for a
socially liberal policy. The prime minister also stated that this process has
been a great exercise of democracy of allowing the people to speak and
respecting the women’s rights and decisions of their own health care. Within the
vote it the “yes camp” took more than 66% of the vote and the turnout was about
64%. From this change it now allows women not to be forced to travel to other
countries, buy pills illegally online, or risk a 14-year jail sentence. Instead
now doctors will be able to be this port of call for their patients. Additionally,
this opens new doors for doctors to be able to save women’s lives and not worry
about losing their jobs or making the wrong decision. Within all of the change
the Catholic church has played a huge role, but recently has been loosing credibility
with scandals going on.
Kaleigh Walsh
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