Support for repealing Irish abortion laws rises days from vote


FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past a Pro-Choice mural on the side of a building ahead of a 25th May referendum on abortion law, in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, May 7, 2018. Picture taken May 7, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish voters who favour liberalising the country's abortion laws increased their lead in two opinion polls published on Sunday, reversing a trend that suggested the race had begun to tighten ahead of the final days of campaigning.

Voters will be asked on Friday if they wish to overhaul one of the world's most restrictive regimes that has long divided a once deeply Catholic nation. A complete ban was only lifted five years ago for cases where the mother's life is in danger.

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