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LIVE: Dáil debates abortion bill before final vote

TDs are debating the amendments to the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 in the Dáil.


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THE DEBATE ON the abortion bill has resumed in the Dáil in advance of the final vote later tonight.

The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 is currently at report stage, meaning TDs are debating the amendments that have been tabled in relation to the bill.

In total, 165 amendments have been tabled, but it is not expected that all of these will get discussed this evening. In the last number of hours, six pro-choice TDs unexpectedly announced that they will not be supporting the bill.

The final vote is expected after midnight tonight.

Read: Protests over abortion bill ongoing on Kildare street>

Explainer: What exactly are Ireland’s politicians voting on tonight?>

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    Mute Ross UAE
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    Dec 1st 2014, 8:30 AM

    Poor countries such as Liberia cannot afford the standard of health care provided to and paid for by rich western countries including Ireland, and so long as they are led by corrupt politicians they never will. Any aid given is mostly stolen or wasted and what remains just keeps people alive to face the next crisis which is never too far away. Without complete reform these African countries will remain at the bottom of every human development index, and that reform must come from within as many billions in foreign aid over the past 150 years has changed little except facilitate the replacement of the spear with the AK47. And yes, I have been there.

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    Mute Plantation Watch
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    Dec 1st 2014, 8:20 AM

    What is actually being suggested in this article?

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    Mute Anne Gyna
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    Dec 1st 2014, 1:17 PM

    Our own Irish healthcare is hardly 1st World, gold-medal standard either, is it? With all due respect, let’s get our own very ill people off trollies & hard plastic chairs in Ireland’s A&E’s first, before we fret about over-populated countries & their problems.

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    Mute Sean Mac Diarmada
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    Dec 1st 2014, 10:16 PM

    “Healthcare medical apartheid is as unacceptable in 2014 as apartheid was ‘back in the day’ in South Africa. There can be no ‘them and us’.”
    Welcome to Ireland 2014.!

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    Mute Phil West
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    Dec 1st 2014, 10:54 AM

    Healthcare apartheid – welcome to Ireland

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    Mute Tim Stephen Hendy
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    Dec 2nd 2014, 2:55 PM

    I’m not seeing where “apartheid” comes into it, except as an odd attempt to draw attention to something by using the word.

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