Those outrageous and woman-hating posters will be gone from our lampposts and telegraph poles and from billboards in bogs, villages and cities. “They told us to cherish all the children of the nation equally – vote No,” it instructed. Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald was one of the most persuasive contributors to the repeal side. In 1985 feminists managed to get a motion on a woman’s right to choose abortion through the party’s ardfheis. At a meeting held by anti-repeal activists in Sligo earlier this year, I heard Smyth claim that there were English hospitals which were heated by the burning bodies of Irish babies.

Source: The Irish Times May 26, 2018 00:01 UTC