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19/09/2014
Abortion Referendum "A Bad Idea" - Varadkar
An abortion referendum should not be held in the run up to the next general election, Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has said.
Mr Varadkar made his comments in the Dáil during its topical issues debate. He said that the abortion discussion has been ruled by extremes - "framed in the Catholic versus anti-Catholic view of things rather than what's right and what's wrong".
He went to say that it would be a "really bad idea" to hold a referendum in 2015.
He said: "I think that it would be a really bad idea in 2015, in the run in to a general election for us to have that kind of debate happening in that medium because we have been there before."
(MH/CD)
Mr Varadkar made his comments in the Dáil during its topical issues debate. He said that the abortion discussion has been ruled by extremes - "framed in the Catholic versus anti-Catholic view of things rather than what's right and what's wrong".
He went to say that it would be a "really bad idea" to hold a referendum in 2015.
He said: "I think that it would be a really bad idea in 2015, in the run in to a general election for us to have that kind of debate happening in that medium because we have been there before."
(MH/CD)
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