Abortion is a medical procedure resulting in the termination of a human pregnancy and death of a fetus. In 2013, the Oireachtas approved the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act which allows abortion to be performed on women whose lives are endangered during pregnancy. Proponents of abortion rights claim that since the 1970s more than 170,000 Irish women have left Ireland to have abortions and the ban is discriminatory towards women. Opponents of abortion argue that unborn fetus’s should be afforded the same rights as human beings.
75% Pro-choice |
25% Pro-life |
67% Pro-choice |
18% Pro-life |
5% Pro-choice, and providing birth control, sex education, and more social services will help reduce the number of abortions |
6% Pro-life, but allow in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother or child |
2% Pro-choice, but ban after the first three months |
0% Pro-life, and I also oppose abortion for victims of rape and incest |
1% Pro-choice, I don’t agree but the government has no right to ban it |
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Pro-choice, but the government should not encourage or fund any abortions since a significant proportion of citizens/taxpayers have a moral objection to them
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A woman has a right to abortion if she has been sexually abused or if birth control failed, banning abortion will only create a massive problem of unwanted children
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If child has no disabilities it must be illegal to got through abortion, if the child does have disabilities they are more than welcome to, a child can't be aborted due to gender
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Massively anxiety inducing
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I am neutral. I am not in favour of abortion unless it’s for a good reason. But I am not very against it either.
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