Fact Check: Are anti-abortion views in decline?

As Ireland prepares for a historic referendum, The Week looks at the situation in other Catholic countries

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An anti-abortion protester at a demonstration in Dublin
(Image credit: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images)

After more than three decades of lobbying, voters in Ireland are being given an opportunity to reverse one of the strictest abortion laws in the world.

A referendum on whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution, which prohibits terminations in almost all cases, will be held in May, the government announced this week.

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