Others had pointed out “that the bishops being a group of aging celibate men have no right to interfere with a woman’s right to choose what she wants to do with her body”. And there were the arguments, “made by several senior politicians that, whilst bishops are entitled to their views, they as politicians have to legislate for all the people, for the public good”.
Archbishop Eamon Martin speaking at Féile an Phobail last night as he delivered the Oliver Plunkett address.
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