Contraception in Ireland
(N Z.PA. -Reuter—Copyright) DUBLIN, March 30.
The Irish Republic’s coalition Government has now disclosed its plans to allow contraceptives to be sold openly for the first, time, but with "sales confined strictly to married people. A draft law repeals a 39-year-old Act of Parliament which made it a criminal offence to import or sell contraceptive devices, but the proposed new legislation is unlikely to end argument, for it lays down that any unmarried person, including a widow or widower, who buys contraceptives will face a fine of up to SNZISO. There are doubts about whether the measure will be passed in its present form, because Irish political parties are divided internally over the subject, and the Government parties are already committed to allow a free vote on the legislation.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33498, 1 April 1974, Page 13
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132Contraception in Ireland Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33498, 1 April 1974, Page 13
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