The three-day reflection period before accessing abortion was designed to reassure the people often described as the middle ground in order to get them to vote for repeal of the Eighth Amendment. Simon Coveney, who previously had been pro-life, argued strongly in favour of it in 2018 in the Irish Independent two months before the referendum.
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