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Fri 12 Dec 2001Referendum 'will not stop Irish abortions in UK'The Government’s abortion referendum proposals will not help the 19 pregnant Irish women who travel to the UK for terminations per day and should be abandoned, the Alliance for a No Vote claimed today.The group identified 20 serious legal flaws in the Twenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution Bill which reduces women’s right to life - making their lives explicitly worth less than those of the unborn.