Yesterday, on International Women’s Day, the Irish people were encouraged to vote to remove explicit mention of mothers. The proposed constitutional amendment reworded in gender-neutral terms the statement that “the state recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the state a support without which the common good cannot be achieved”.
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