Irish voters set to liberalize abortion laws in landslide: exit poll

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Irish voters set to liberalize abortion laws in landslide: exit poll
Padraic Halpin, Graham Fahy
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The people of Ireland are set to liberalize some of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws by a landslide, an exit poll showed on Friday, as voters demanded change in what two decades ago was one of Europe’s most socially conservative countries.

The Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI exit poll suggested that voters in the once deeply Catholic nation had backed a referendum by a margin of 68 percent to 32 percent. A second exit poll was due to be published by 2230 GMT.

Turnout could be one of the highest for a referendum, national broadcaster RTE reported, potentially topping the 61 percent who backed gay marriage by a large margin in 2015 as voters queued outside polling stations throughout the day in the blistering sunshine.

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Pope Francis Silent as Ireland Legalizes Baby Murder
By Peter D'Abrosca -
May 26, 2018

The not-so-venerable leader of the Catholic Church has been noticeably silent regarding the one of the largest blows to Christian values in recent history.

“The Gospel calls us to live outside our comfort zone, because anyone who follows Jesus, loves the poor and the lowly,” Pope Francis tweeted this morning, just as official news broke that Ireland to legalize abortion.  ...

The Pope – supposedly responsible for upholding Catholic values from atop his throne at the Vatican – made exactly zero public statements about Ireland’s vote. He could not even be bothered to squeeze out a tweet encouraging the mostly-Catholic nation to hold true to their valued and God’s word.  ... More at BigLeaguePolitics