Abortion rights - It's up to you and me

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday February 13, 2002 13:06 by Deidre Hogan / Aileen O'Carroll - Workers Solidarity Movement wsm at newmail dot net 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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