Forum Newsfront

March, 1981

Only in IrelandDublin--After years of fierce legislative debate, the Irish parliament has passed a Family Planning Act that allows married couples to legally purchase contraceptives. The law still excludes single persons and permits the sale of birth-control pills and devices only by registered pharmacists and only with a doctor's prescription. A "conscience clause" in the law permits doctors and druggists to refuse to prescribe or sell them if they have personal moral objections.Death...