{"id":71565,"date":"2018-05-26T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71565"},"modified":"2018-05-26T18:21:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T22:21:35","slug":"bbc-irish-abortion-referendum-ireland-overturns-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71565","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Irish abortion referendum: Ireland overturns abortion ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic of Ireland has voted overwhelmingly to overturn the abortion ban by 66.4% to 33.6%.<\/p>\n<p>A referendum held on Friday resulted in a landslide win for the repeal side.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, abortion is only allowed when a woman&#8217;s life is at risk, but not in cases of rape, incest or fatal foetal abnormality.<\/p>\n<p>The Eighth Amendment, which grants an equal right to life to the mother and unborn, will be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration was made at Dublin Castle at 18:13 local time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-44256152\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic of Ireland has voted overwhelmingly to overturn the abortion ban by 66.4% to 33.6%. A referendum held on Friday resulted in a landslide win for the repeal side. Currently, abortion is only allowed when a woman&#8217;s life is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71565\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,168,325,114,96,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ireland","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71567,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71565\/revisions\/71567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}