Abortion is legal in Ireland!

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In the country of Ireland they have just voted to legalize abortion. After voting in their first openly gay Prime Minister last year it didn’t take long for him to offer a referendum on abortion to keep those minority female voters that got him in, onside, abortion currently illegal in Ireland, accept if it’s a life threatening situation. The debate raged and the sisterhood won, 65/35. It was expected that the rural country vote would make the referendum close but not so as young people won the day as LGBT and feminist groups organised and drove the Yes vote. Previously females would have to get the ferry to the U.K to have an abortion. Northern Ireland, part of the UK, has kept their abortion ban. Pressure is now on N.I to have a vote, the same young radical females driving for the vote right now. I think it should always been a woman’s decision and happy the ban has been overturned. I know its men who put it in there but women should be the ones who protect their own bodies. Problem is this vote could trigger big problems for the British government, held in place by coalition with a very conservative protestant Northern Ireland political party, the Democratic Unionists. They are 100% against abortion and won’t want a vote on it in N.I. The British Prime Minister May will not want to have the vote because of that. The actual Northern Ireland government is currently suspended as they couldn’t agree a budget and so this issue could force another general election and all the Brexit chaos that goes with that.