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Ireland registers win with 66.4% to overturn abortion ban
Updated On: 28 May, 2018 08:15 AM IST | London | Agencies
Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the referendum result marked "the day Ireland stepped out from under the last of our shadows and into the light"
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Yes campaigners celebrate the official result at Dublin Castle. Pics/AFP
Ireland voted overwhelmingly on Friday to overturn the country's abortion ban, after counting on Saturday revealed a landslide victory for the yes vote — 66.4 per cent — to repeal the stringent Eighth Amendment in a landmark referendum. Until now, abortion was only allowed when a woman's life was at risk, but not in cases of rape, incest or fatal foetal abnormality, the BBC reported.
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