Readers' Blog: No vote in referendum for having no abortion at all

I am genuinely mystified by the apparent assumption on the side of those who are against repeal of the eighth amendment that Ireland is somehow “abortion-free”, and that a vote against repeal is a vote against abortion for the women of Ireland.

We have in our Constitution an absurd contradiction. The Eighth Amendment gives the “unborn”, from conception to term, an absolute right to life, notwithstanding the equal right to life of the pregnant woman.