The Labour Party today launched their campaign for a ‘No’ vote in the Government's proposed constitutional amendment on abortion.
Speaking at the launch party health spokesperson Ms Liz McManus called the referendum "unnecessary, irrelevant and dangerous to the right to life of Irish women".
"It deepens the stigma attached to suicide in Irish society. It will do nothing to address the reality of Irish abortion, at a time when on average 19 Irish women go to Britain to have an abortion, every day of the year," she added.
Party leader Mr Ruairi Quinn said the party has allocated €75,000 to fight the campaign. Posters will go up at the weekend and a billboard campaign will be launched in the final weeks of the campaign.
Mr Quinn said: "Demonising women is at the heart of the Taoiseach’s proposal. He is saying they cannot be trusted."
"I don’t believe the Irish people will respond to such scaremongering. I believe we are more mature than that. This is not 1983 anymore," Mr Quinn concluded.
