QUEER VIEW MIRROR
with Stephen Meyler
#RepealThe8th #TurkeyLGBT #GayDumbledore
TRUST ME, I’M A POLITICIAN
As the referendum campaigns heat up (or seep to the surface, in the case of whichever anti-choice types recently put large photographs of miscarried foetuses on the railings opposite a central Dublin primary school), who will we be asked to trust?
The referendum is going to ask us to approve repeal of the 8th amendment and a large majority of TDs and senators agree that it should go. On the second part of the ballot – that the 8th should be replaced with a provision to allow TDs and senators to legislate on abortion, believed by most to mean a law allowing unrestricted abortion up to 12 weeks, polls and expressed views of the members of the Oireachtas suggest a much narrower majority in favour.