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8th March 2018
03:18pm GMT

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, a qualified GP, announced today that the impending referendum is about asking citizens “to allow women to make major decisions for themselves."
“It’s about trusting women to decide, in the early weeks of their pregnancy, what’s right for them and their families," he said.
“And it’s about trusting our doctors to decide when continuing with a pregnancy is a risk to the life or health of a woman. Above all, it’s about trusting Irish people to consider this matter in depth, with compassion and empathy, as I know they will.”
The Government will later publish the referendum bill, with a Dáil debate expected to begin tomorrow morning following a meeting of the Business Committee – the committee which determines the Dáil agenda. The intended date for the abortion referendum is 25 May 2018. As of 2010, the abortion rate in Ireland was 4.5 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years.Explore more on these topics:

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