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Vote No For Honesty
Irish Times Editorial: 05/03/02: Whatever the outcome of tomorrow's referendum, it will not abate the numbers of Irish women who choose, for whatever reasons, to terminate a pregancy by abortion. In this sense it is an exercise in futility which will not alter reality in women's lives.
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Cruel, bleak view of women put to the
people
05/03/02: COMMENT/Fintan O'Toole: These days, as he drives out from his palace, Cardinal Desmond Connell can see, almost directly across the Drumcondra Road on the north side of Dublin, a handsome new commercial building.
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Using a divisive political strategy in
effort to solve a difficult moral issue
05/03/02: The abortion debate has been raging for weeks and tomorrow, the people will give judgment on the Government's proposals. Evelyn Mahon distils some of the major issues of the campaign from both points of view and indicates her own preference
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St Brigid would vote NO if faced with this referendum
05/03/02: The Catholic Church's current position on abortion dates just from the 19th century, writes Judith Maas, who also claims that ancient documents show that St Brigid once performed an abortion
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Reluctant to say Yes or No, but implicitly in favour
04/03/02: Regional papers have generally been reluctant to advocate a particular position in the forthcoming abortion referendum, but the Limerick Leader has explicitly urged its readers to vote Yes.
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Building a legal bastion
against abortion on demand
04/03/02: The referendum is simple rather than confusing - a Yes vote halts any move towards the liberal availability of abortion, writes John Samuel
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I feel the legislation is unequal - it will create two classes of women
02/03/02: The Church of Ireland does not approve of abortion but I cannot support this referendum, writes Archbishop Walton Empey.
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Abortion result in the balance
01/03/02: It will come down in the end to the commitment of Yes and No voters to turn-out next Wednesday on polling day . That is the main finding of the latest Irish Times/MRBI opinion poll which gives the Yes side, promoted by the Government, the Catholic Church and the Pro-Life Campaign the edge going into the final weekend of the campaign.
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Voters may lie to opinion pollsters on how they will vote on abortion
01/03/02: Where moral issues are concerned, opinion poll findings should be treated with a large dollop of caution, writes Denis Coghlan
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State must uphold dignity of each person
28/02/02: Anti-abortion activists urging a rejection of the amendment should reflect on the consequences if they succeed, writes Cardinal Desmond Connell
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Yes campaigners have sacrificed
purity for a grubby political deal
27/02/02: The referendum is a battle for the soul of Ireland rather than a fight against abortion, argues Conor Gearty
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When moral intuition is not enough
27/02/02: The absolutist position on abortion is founded on the intuition that it is always wrong deliberately to kill innocent human life, writes Vincent Browne
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'No' campaigners hope
rejection will open door to abortion
27/02/02: The campaign for a Yes vote is spearheaded by the Pro-Life Campaign, with the Bishops' Conference stating that Catholics "should feel free in conscience to support this measure, even if it is viewed as less than might have been desired", writes Eamon O'Dwyer
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Yes campaigners have sacrificed
purity for a grubby political deal
27/02/02: The referendum is a battle for the soul of Ireland rather than a fight against abortion, argues Conor Gearty
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Confusing and divisive
25/02/02: There is that same old Nice feeling about it now. With nine days to go to polling, the campaign to row-back on the X case in the abortion referendum is multi-directional, confusing and divisive for the majority of voters.
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Amendment rolls back decision in the X case argues Binchy
25/02/02: The amendment rolls back the Supreme Court decision in the X case, argues William Binchy
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Amendment seeks to nullify role of the Oireachtas and President, argues Finlay
25/02/02: The proposed constitutional abortion amendment is anti-democratic and seeks to nullify the role of the Oireachtas and the President, suggests Peter Finlay.
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