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Tue 12 Dec 2008Birth control opponents warned of incest and evil
FAMILY PLANNING:ALLOWING CONTRACEPTION into Ireland would lead to anarchy, euthanasia and incest, aggrieved letter-writers warned the taoiseach Jack Lynch in 1978. State papers just released include several hundred letters from people opposing the legalising of contraception sales.
They were writing as the government prepared to regularise the situation following the McGee Supreme Court ruling of 1973 which found that a ban on the sale of contraceptives violated a married couple's constitutional right to privacy.
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