The Irish state is complicit and directly responsible for the creation of needless additive psychological harm in Irish women who travel abroad for safe abortion services. Many more Irish women choose to gamble with tablets from the internet or those bought on the high street. There are the asylum seekers left in limbo if they choose an abortion. There is the well documented plight of women who are pregnant with a non-viable fetus. It is my opinion that we are forcing all these women to endure horrific experiences on account of the burdens of travel and the culture of stigma created. I feel the Irish state is entirely complicit with these health ill-effects. Furthermore I feel the Irish State is complicit in depriving Irish women of basic human rights, denying them access to safe and accessible abortion services, unlike women in almost all other international countries.

As soon this circus is over and we have legislated and regulated for the most restrictive abortion regime in the world… We need to move on quickly on to the provision of safe abortion services for all women in Ireland.

Did those who said they wanted a referendum to remove the threat of suicide as a reason for an abortion know we have already held 2 referendums on that question and each time those voting wanted it kept?

So 64% of people want abortion legalised including at least the suicidal issue, can we move on and just get on with it, this is what we pay politicians to do. Time to grow balls and get on with it.

I find it interesting to see the breakdown of the age groups it will most likely affect ie 18-34 and 35-54. I never like the way the people least potentially affected still have such influence but hey, that’s democracy!

Yet more evidence to suggest that the anti-abortion view is quite, literally, dying out.

I’m one of the 29%.

A legal termination should be available (with appropriately legislated time constraints re: viability and exceptions for the life of the mother) to all women shoud they wish it.

Has anyone else noticed that the majority (though not all) of those commenting on The Journal that are “pro-choice” are female and the majority of those that are “pro-life” are male? I wonder, does that give any of those “pro-life” males pause for thought at all? Do they ever ask themselves why so many women of childbearing age are so strongly Pro-Choice? Maybe we have a clearer understanding of the impact on our lives of an unwanted pregnancy?

Making abortion illegal doesn’t stop it. The ONLY thing it leads to is women accessing unsafe terminations that results in suffering, proscecution and has been known to lead to death.

Can’t agree more, it’s been a long time coming!!

Only 42% of Labour supporters backing abortion on demand. Suspected that would be higher.

Fine Gael voters that bit more pro-choice than Fianna Fáil

Most surprising thing about this poll for me is that of those polled more men than women appear to be pro-choice.

What a strange country we live in where we make something illegal mainly due to the teachings of a discredited religious organization and even tho it’s illegal we still manage to export many thousands of this illegal act to our next door neighbour while our law makers spout on about the dangers of legalization of this procedure …..apparently the women of Ireland will be hopping on anybody to get themselves up the duff and then flooding abortion clinics as in the eyes of some of these lawmakers I it’s some sort of craze rather than a womans personal choice…silly hypocrisy and Ireland window to a church dominated past is apparently still ajar

I can assure you; it may become available & legal but would be surprised if the medical profession or HSE will charge some money for it.

The HSE is not on a par with the NHS and far too many hospitals work under a Catholic ethos!

Reason that more females are pro-choice is a simple one men walk away with the excuses that they aren’t ready to be a father etc.mSo it’s the woman’s choice then but if in a relationship it should be discussed between a man and a women but really a man doesn’t have to carry a baby for 9 months and If the female doesn’t want that child would any man force his partner/wife to go through that and expect her to suddenly want the baby after labour(it can happen but rarely) I’m pro-choice I don’t want to see it as a means of contraception there a condoms and pills to help stop unwanted pregnancy’s but its a woman’s choice if the pill or condom don’t work!!! Also the church has no say In this I don’t believe in this have the baby and then give it up for adoption didn’t work with the church abusing those girls in the laundry’s after taking those babies away from them! Just my thought must be a horrible thing for any woman to decide wether to keep the baby or not and only women can understand that!

I really don’t know why we are still taking polls and discussing this issue, we know the majority of Irish voters want to legislate on the X case, we already had the referendum and it passed. The law is there, just legislate already and stop the pussyfooting around!

It’s interesting how Fine Gael voters speak from two voices instead of one. They vehemently opposed abortion before the 2011 election and yet they now support it. The polls would turn against them unless they dropped their ideological christian-right belief. Fine Gael seem to care more about power – sounds familiar to FF?

Is this really how we want to spend tax payers money?

The mob has spoken!

Let me point out that their figure of 64% is 21% below their last poll. http://www.thejournal.ie/opinion-poll-shows-majority-in-favour-for-legislation-on-x-698251-Dec2012/

Red C polls have often been.proven wrong. That article picture is hardly impartial, is it? Nor is the wording of the article. Is the author sure.they are not in breach of media guidelines?

The figure for Fine Gael voters is strange. And disappointing.

Savita could easily have been transported to the UK for an abortion. That didn’t happen, why?

I believe her sad death was all built up to propagandise to force abortion on the Irish people against our will as is now happening.

This is therefore the final end of democracy in Ireland.
- and this is what I am against. Not abortion, but forcing abortion – or anything – on the Irish people against their will. That’s dictatorship!