Rosemary Goring: Abortion vote gives Ireland chance to unshackle itself

As she hurried past the television cameras, a woman muttered, “I wish it was all over”. She was referring to today’s referendum on repealing the law on abortion in the Republic of Ireland, and no wonder she sounded sour. This subject is dividing the country, making citizens decide between old and new, religious and secular, hard-line and open-minded, feudal and democratic. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16249430.Rosemary_Goring__Abortion_vote_gives_Ireland_chance_to_unshackle_itself/