Tomás Ó Flatharta

Let’s keep it very simple. These 2 constitutional provisions are symbolic. 

The basic information is provided here : Electoral Commission Explanation of Care and Family Referendums in Ireland. We are concentrating on the Care Referendum, as some people on the Irish left are advocating a No vote, meaning that the existing reactionary sexist wording in DeValera’s 1937 Constitution will remain in place.

In any referendum you are only voting on the question you are asked – not on the question you would like to be asked.

Voters should ask themselves : Is the existing wording worse than the proposed changes? 

Yes or No?

Any objective left-wing and feminist reading of the relevant texts can only come to one conclusion : The proposed changes are better.