Ireland tries to take women out of its Constitution

Irish voters took to the polls on International Women’s Day — Friday — to remove the words “woman” and “mother” from the Constitution.

Also up for vote: a measure that would widely expand the definition of “family.”

Two amendments were on the ballot: Article 39, on the family, and Article 40, on the role of women/mothers in society.

Article 39 would redefine the family to a grouping “founded on marriage,” as the Constitution now says, “or on other durable relationships.”

The proponents of the changes argued the current wording is exclusionary to single-parent and nonmarried households.

“The relationship that exists between a child and their mother or father when they’re born, that’s the one-parent family,” Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said. “It’s committed, it’s caring, it’s long-lasting.”

But the vague inclusion of “durable relationships”  caused more confusion.

Nobody — neither voters nor politicians — seemed to have a clear definition of the term.

The referendum failed.  The voters rejected the proposals

https://nypost.com/2024/03/05/opinion/irelands-about-to-take-women-out-of-its-constitution/

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