Ireland has voted decisively to repeal abortion bans, the Prime Minister announced.
That vote is just the latest in a series of stinging rebukes to the Roman Catholic Church.
In the past three years alone, Ireland has installed a gay man as Prime Minister and has voted in another referendum to allow same-sex marriage.
But this was a particularly wrenching issue for Irish voters, even for supporters of the measure. And it was not clear until the end that the momentum toward socially liberal policies would be powerful enough to sweep away the deeply ingrained opposition to abortion.
“What we have seen today really is a culmination of a quiet revolution that’s been taking place in Ireland for the past 10 or 20 years,” Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said at a counting center in Dublin hours before the results of Friday’s vote were fully tallied.
Liberals may be shouting for joy, but sadly the Irish have abandoned the Catholicism which has, throughout their history, been an essential part of their national and cultural identity.
What a loss for Ireland. What a loss for the Church.
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