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Mon 07 Jul 2007Is it time to legislate for abortion in Ireland? NO:Berry Kielysays a decent society must recognise the humanity of the unbornThe campaign for legal abortion achieved its aim in Britain with the introduction of the Abortion Act there 40 years ago. Many medical and technological changes have since occurred, giving us a valuable opportunity to assess the social and human costs of abortion. In 1967 one could have pleaded blindness to the humanity of the unborn; in 2007 this is no longer possible.