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Inside Europe: Ireland votes to lift ban on abortion

Sean Defoe
June 1, 2018

Three years after becoming the first country to allow gay marriage by a popular vote, 66 per cent of the Irish electorate has decided to allow abortions in Ireland. It represents a massive societal change in attitudes in a country that, under massive influence from the Catholic Church, was once one of the most conservative in Europe. Sean Defoe was in Dublin Castle for the historic result.

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