{"id":179066,"date":"2018-05-26T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/26\/the-free-women-of-ireland-1-catholic-church-0\/"},"modified":"2018-05-26T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T03:58:00","slug":"the-free-women-of-ireland-1-catholic-church-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/26\/the-free-women-of-ireland-1-catholic-church-0\/","title":{"rendered":"The Free Women of Ireland: 1 \u2014 Catholic Church: 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/gHy8nSi.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/gHy8nSi.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>Irish voters have just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/may\/26\/ireland-votes-by-landslide-to-legalise-abortion\">voted overwhelmingly to legalize abortion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ireland\">Ireland<\/a> has voted by a landslide to legalise abortion in a stunning outcome that marks a dramatic defeat for the Catholic church\u2019s one-time domination of the Republic. <\/p>\n<p>The Irish electorate voted by 1,429,981 votes to 723,632 in favour of abolishing a controversial constitutional amendment that gave equal legal status to the lives of a foetus and the woman carrying it. The result was a two-thirds majority: 66.4% yes to 33.6% no. <\/p>\n<p>By voting yes in unexpectedly large numbers to abolish the eighth amendment to the Irish constitution, the country has enabled the government in Dublin to introduce abortion in Ireland\u2019s health service up to 12 weeks into pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Saturday\u2019s triumph for abortion reformers occurred only months before a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/mar\/21\/pope-francis-to-visit-ireland-soon-after-abortion-referendum\">papal visit to the country<\/a> \u2013 the first since John Paul II\u2019s tour of Ireland in 1979. After Pope  Francis leaves Ireland in August, the Irish minority government, with  the backing of opposition parties, will within weeks start the process  of drawing up legislation to allow for abortion, which was once an  unthinkable political project in Ireland.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Pope Frank will be visiting in a August.<\/p>\n<p>I welcome Ireland to the ranks for first world nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish voters have just voted overwhelmingly to legalize abortion: Ireland has voted by a landslide to legalise abortion in a stunning outcome that marks a dramatic defeat for the Catholic church\u2019s one-time domination of the Republic. The Irish electorate voted by 1,429,981 votes to 723,632 in favour of abolishing a controversial constitutional amendment that gave &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[551,375,371,374],"class_list":["post-179066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-abortion","tag-elections","tag-europe","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}