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Referendum Result Enormous Step Forward For Ireland – Conway

Plans are underway to make it easier for women to travel to the UK for an abortion following Saturday’s referendum result.

There are also calls to lift the threat of a 14 year prison sentence for women who take abortion pills here at home.

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Health Minister Simon Harris is likely to consult with officials today, to get a time-scale for publishing legislation.

Clare’s Senator has described the result of the Eighth Amendment referendum as an enormous step forward for Ireland.

The country’s electorate voted on a margin of roughly two to one in favour of Repealing the Eighth in Friday’s historic vote.

While here in Clare, over 64% of the valid votes cast were in favour of abolishing the 30-year-old amendment, which gave equal weight to the life of the mother and the unborn child.

Fine Gael’s Martin Conway feels it was a significant day for our country:

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