{"id":183499,"date":"2018-06-02T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T18:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=183499"},"modified":"2018-06-01T21:41:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T01:41:14","slug":"deceptive-ireland-voted-allow-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/deceptive-ireland-voted-allow-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"These four deceptive tactics led ‘pro-life Ireland’ to vote for abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the referendum vote last week, Irish citizens voted to overturn legal protection of the preborn<\/a>, legalizing abortion in the formerly pro-life country. The referendum overturned the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which was adopted by referendum in 1983. In that vote three and a half decades ago, a two-thirds majority voted to enshrine in the constitution recognition of the right to life of the preborn child. Last week, a two-thirds majority voted to overturn that same amendment.<\/p>\n

What has changed? How could a country that overwhelmingly recognized the need to protect the most vulnerable become one that overwhelmingly supports the legally sanctioned killing of some human beings? The answer is certainly not that the Irish people have become barbaric, cruel, and inhumane, although the majority voted in favor of abortion, which is, in fact, barbaric, cruel and inhumane<\/a>.<\/p>\n