The cabinet, meeting on International Women’s Day, approved a bill on Thursday allowing the long-anticipated referendum to go ahead. Ireland’s Fine Gael-led minority government believes there is enough cross-party support for the bill to become law. Photograph: Niall Carson/PAThe way for the government to introduce the bill was cleared on Wednesday by a supreme court ruling. A no vote would mean nothing could be done for the Irish women who have to travel to the UK for abortions, he added. “The supreme court’s judgment makes it all the more necessary to oppose the government’s proposal to introduce abortion on demand,” said William Binchy, the campaign’s legal adviser.

Source: The Guardian March 08, 2018 15:07 UTC