“Graphic” and “vile” anti-abortion posters should not be used during the Eighth Amendment referendum campaign, Leo Varadkar has said.
The taoiseach was speaking after the Irish Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (ICBR), an anti-repeal group, was criticised for campaigning outside maternity hospitals in Dublin using a 7ft image of a foetus. It has also campaigned elsewhere with extreme images.
Mr Varadkar was responding to cross-party calls for that type of campaigning to stop and for similar advertising signs to be removed. “I want to absolutely agree about the really graphic and vile billboards and posters that we have seen pop up. They should be removed and I know they are upsetting to pregnant women and their partners,” Mr Varadkar said. “A lot of children seeing them