| 词条 | Pro-Life Amendment Campaign |
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The Pro-Life Amendment Campaign (PLAC) was an anti-abortion advocacy organisation established in Ireland in 1981. It campaigned in favour of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which was approved by referendum on 7 September 1983 and signed into law on the 7 October of the same year. MembershipThe organisation was set up several other organisations:[1][2]
They attended a meeting chaired by the leader of the Knights of Saint Columbanus on 21 January 1981. The meeting was called by John O'Reilly, a former Knight of Columbanus who had campaigned against contraception and the Irish Family Planning Association in the 1970s. It was officially launched at a press conference chaired by Dr Julia Vaughan (a gynaecologist and former nun) on 27 April 1981.[3] Elected officers of the organisation were: Julia Vaughan (Irish Catholic Doctors' Guild, chairman), Michael Shortall (Catholic Young Men's Society, secretary), Dennis Barror (Irish Responsible Society, treasurer). CampaignShortly after its launch, PLAC delegations met separately with Fianna Fáil's Charlie Haughey, Fine Gael's Garret FitzGerald and the Labour Party's Frank Cluskey. After an acrimonious referendum campaign, the amendment was passed by 67% voting in favour to 33% voting against.[4] AftermathKey members of the campaign went on to establish the Pro Life Campaign in 1992. See also
References1. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Irish Times|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/why-ireland-became-the-only-country-in-the-democratic-world-to-have-a-constitutional-ban-on-abortion-1.1907610|date=26 August 2014|first=Fintan|last=O'Toole|author-link=Fintan O'Toole|title=Why Ireland became the only country in the democratic world to have a constitutional ban on abortion|access-date=4 May 2017}} {{Abortion in the Republic of Ireland}}2. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=28 April 1981|pages=1,8|title=Move to keep abortion illegal|first=Patrick|last=Nolan}} 3. ^{{cite book | title=The Second Partitioning of Ireland?: The Abortion Referendum of 1983 | publisher=Brandsma Books | author=Hesketh, Tom | year=1990 | pages=12 | isbn=9780951151648}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/Voting/Referenda/PublicationsDocuments/FileDownLoad,1894,en.pdf|title=Referendum Results|work=Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government|accessdate=28 May 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224084849/http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/Voting/Referenda/PublicationsDocuments/FileDownLoad%2C1894%2Cen.pdf|archivedate=24 December 2014|df=}} 3 : Anti-abortion organisations in the Republic of Ireland|1981 establishments in Ireland|Organizations established in 1981 |
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