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yortsed snacilbuper

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Sat May 26, 2018, 02:51 PM May 2018

Ireland Votes to Legalize Abortion in Blow to Catholic Conservatism

Ireland voted decisively to repeal one of the world’s more restrictive abortion bans, the prime minister said Saturday, sweeping aside generations of conservative patriarchy and dealing the latest in a series of stinging rebukes to the Roman Catholic Church.

The surprising landslide cemented the nation’s liberal shift at a time when right-wing populism is on the rise in Europe and the Trump administration is imposing curbs on abortion rights in the United States. In the past three years alone, Ireland has installed a gay man as prime minister and has voted in another referendum to allow same-sex marriage.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ireland-votes-to-legalize-abortion-in-blow-to-catholic-conservatism/ar-AAxQicr?ocid=spartanntp

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Ireland Votes to Legalize Abortion in Blow to Catholic Conservatism (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper May 2018 OP
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