The Irish vote for abortion
McGeown provides a Reformed Christian perspective on Ireland's 2018 constitutional referendum that legalized abortion, analyzing the removal of constitutional protections for unborn life and situating this within broader Western secularization trends. The article defends the sanctity of life from a Protestant Reformed worldview, offering critical reflection on how Christian moral principles are being systematically rejected in contemporary Western democracies.
On Friday, May 25, 2018, the unborn child in Ireland lost his precious, constitutional right to life because the Irish people expunged that right from the Irish Constitution. Prior to May 25, the Irish Constitution, Article 40.3.3, otherwise known as the "Eighth Amendment," read as follows: The [Irish] State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to...
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