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Professor of law Ivana Bacik. File photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
Ivana Bacik: Students’ unions should stand firm on abortion
  • Opinion
  • September 23, 2017, 22:31

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In November 2016, the union voted decisively, with 64 per cent of voters in UCDSU supported retaining the union’s pro-choice stance. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
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