Readers Blog: Dublin City Councillors welcome 8th committee vote

As a group of Dublin City Councillors, we are acutely aware of how the Eighth Amendment, and Ireland’s restrictive abortion legislation, has impacted on the lives of women across our city.

As a group of Dublin City Councillors, we are acutely aware of how the Eighth Amendment, and Ireland’s restrictive abortion legislation, has impacted on the lives of women across our city.

Its presence in our constitution is a hangover from an era when Catholic moralism trumped women’s rights, health, and autonomy time and time again. We are delighted to see that era finally coming to an end.