Abortion rights activists proclaimed victory for social justice Saturday as exit polls and early results indicated Ireland had voted overwhelmingly to repeal a 1983 constitutional ban on abortions. Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, speaking Saturday before official results were announced, said it appeared that voters chose to liberalize Ireland’s strict laws on abortion — only allowed when a woman’s life is at risk — by a more than two-to-one margin. “The people have spoken,” said Varadkar, a medical doctor who campaigned for repeal in Friday’s historic referendum. …read more
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