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Breda O’Brien: Some media see abortion bias as a badge of honour
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Colum Kenny: Cool liberals can be just as deaf as conservative Catholics
Rap over the knuckles for RTE will stimulate rather than stymie debate
Ivana Bacik: Repeal the Eighth Amendment for the sake of our daughters
Labour’s framework legislation will allow abortion on four medically certified grounds
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Helen Linehan had an abortion because of a fatal foetal abnormality. Now she and her husband, the ‘Father Ted’ creator Graham Linehan, have made their experience public as part of a campaign to decriminalise abortion in Ireland
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