Repeal the 8th

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So DH and I are currently visiting my DF and DStepM in Southern Ireland (where I grew up).

Just answered the door to a couple who are looking for support in the referendum and wanted us to pledge that we would vote no.

No for context I am just 6 weeks away from giving birth to DC3 (so clearly very heavily pregnant) and they still had the audacity to argue with me when I said I didn't agree with them and I supported any woman's right to decide what happens to her body.

They started trying to show me pictures of 10 week old babies in the womb (not necessary obviously in the circumstances) and weren't pleased that I didn't agree with them given that I'm carrying a baby myself.

I'm sorry I don't really have an actual AIBU I just wanted to rant a bit and show support for the people who have to face this absolute shit every day until the referendum. We're going home to the UK on Thursday so I won't have it all thrown in my face anymore but I just think the guilt tripping is horrendous 😞

I've just posted on the other thread to say I've just come back from my polling booth which is full of older people; I think the no campaigners are taxi-ing/bus-ing them in in their droves, which really bothers me.

I hope some of the people they are hauling in turn around and "do the right thing". Funnily enough, purely anecdotally, I think older women are more likely to vote yes than older men. A lot of young men aren't voting, it seems as they think it's not their business. ds had a row with a couple of friends trying to make them see that not voting is voting for no change, and thus is the same as voting no, but I don't know if he got anywhere.

hughlaurie, my FB feed was like that all this week; I reported, reported, reported.

Seriously - they wouldn't operate for an ectopic? Surely not.

What’s making me so mad is the people on the no side or just talking about unwanted babies- there’s not a thought in there for rape victims or babies with FFA. In one article a guy voted no “because he doesn’t trust politicians to protect the life of the unborn.”

“He said he was not wholly opposed to abortion and that in cases of rape, incest, and fatal foetal abnormality he was sympathetic, but felt the referendum didn’t accommodate a third way of restricted abortion up to 12 weeks.”

So. He’s sympathetic. Just not enough to actually show them some fucking humanity.

The polls closed at 10pm.

The first exit poll conducted by the Irish Times predicts a 68 percent YES vote.

www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/irish-times-exit-poll-projects-ireland-has-voted-by-landslide-to-repeal-eighth-amendment-1.3508861?mode=amp&__twitter_impression=true

Exit poll looks good. RTE announcing theirs later tonight, so let's see if that's in line. Fingers crossed.

I can't see how the IT poll could be out by 18%. I still feel nervous though.

RTÉ exit poll

So excited - I just hope this is accurate

So excited, can hardly allow myself to believe it!

I hope this is accurate too.

Fingers crossed for you all from here in North Essex.

The exit polls only canvassed 7800 people between them so it could still go the other way...

But still. Hope.

Let's hope TM forces s change in NI now. So pleased and proud.

There's no way with those exit poll results that it could have gone either way! I have no idea how or why exit polls get it right (here anyway) with a small margin of error, but they do, and they did.

But that's a minor quibble in a truly fantastic weekend, the culmination of an astonishing campaign. Proud and happy here!