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Abortion rights - It's up to you and me

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday February 13, 2002 13:06author by Deidre Hogan / Aileen O'Carroll - Workers Solidarity Movementauthor email wsm at newmail dot netauthor address PO Box 1528, Dublin 8

Media 'experts' and commentators have been saying that the progressive changes that occurred around contraception, divorce and equal age of consent for gays in Ireland in the early to mid-nineties were a natural result of modernisation of Irish society and occurred because liberal politicians decided to push for these changes. We are supposed to feel that only our rulers can change things, that the rest of us are pretty powerless. Well, it's not true.

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[BTW is this the best way to use material already online or would it be better to post the entire article here again?]

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yep.
author by rowanpublication date Wed Feb 13, 2002 17:42author address author phone

>is this the best way to use material already online

yeh, a short excerpt and then a link to the full article is the best way. Better than 20 pages of stuff.

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