It's taken it's time coming but the people in the Republic of Ireland will tomorrow vote on whether they want to make changes to end the country's strict abortion laws.
The pro and anti abortion campaigners have been out in strength this week trying to persuade the Irish people with their arguments and opinion polls point to a majority for yes when the votes are counted on Saturday although there is a large amount of people in the undecided camp.
The anti-abortion movement, calling themselves 'Love Both', has focused its message with emotive posters showing an ultrasound scan of a foetus accompanied with the words: 'Don’t repeal me' while the pro-abortion camp have been using the message that the Government shouldn't be forcing women to do what they decree.
In 2016, over 3500 women made the trip from Ireland to England to undergo an abortion and as things currently stand, a pregnant woman in Ireland has three options, they can stay pregnant, they can travel abroad for an abortion or they can illegally self-administer an abortion, having ordered pills online.
Abortion is always a deeply difficult topic to think about but to not allow the fourth option of a safe, legal abortion can't be right, who is anybody to impose their will on others when ultimately it's for the woman involved to have the full set of options to decide.
If you don't believe in it, then fair enough, don't do it, but don't limit other women and restrict their rights to their own bodies.
It should only be the decision of the people directly involved with the help of professional advice and then be left to make their own decisions and access to all the options but mostly it is far too important a decision to have someone else remotely force the choice on them.
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