Abstract
Fianna Fáil regained power in June 1977 with a majority of 20 seats. The Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, announced the intention of his government to introduce a law on family planning, and the task was given to Charles Haughey, Minister for Health, who took 18 months to finalise the draft bill. In the meantime, the militants against contraception had not remained inactive. As early as 1976, they brandished the motto ‘contraception now, abortion next’ and began to go round church halls and schools with foetuses in jars.1 Irish newspapers now reported the official number of Irish women going to Britain for an abortion, and the IFPA had two calls a week from women wanting information about abortions abroad. The amalgamation was easy, but interestingly enough, it was also used by the pro-contraception militants who argued that a legal and informed contraception service would reduce the number of abortions.
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Notes
Sean Treacy, Labour, ‘dissident’ on the issue, Dail Debates, 14 February 1985, col. 2700.
John Kelly, Fine Gael, Dail Debates, 9 February 1985, col. 161.
J.H. Whyte, ‘Recent Developments in Church-State Relations’, Seirbhis Phoibli (Journal of the Department of the Public Services), vol. 6, no. 3, Autumn 1985, p. 9.
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Hug, C. (1998). Contraception: … To a Responsible Sexuality for All. In: The Politics of Sexual Morality in Ireland. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-59785-3_5
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