As the President of Ireland signed the bill repealing the country’s life-affirming Eighth Amendment, pro-lifers lamented it as a “sad day for human rights”. President Michael D Higgins signed the Thirty-Sixth Amendment Of the Constitution Bill 2018 on Tuesday, thus formally deleting the Eighth Amendment, which had guaranteed the right to life of the unborn... Read More
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