A bitter debate on a dubious abortion law
The debate was complicated and vitriolic, full of emotional arguments, thunderous Sunday sermons and Irish ironies. It split the medical and legal professions, divided the Republic of Ireland's political parties and prompted Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald to make a public apology for ever having started the fuss. But in a country of 3.1 million Roman Catholics, 96% of the population, the result was never in doubt: by a vote of 66% to 33%, the Irish electorate last week declared itself firmly in favor of a...
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