In 2018, Ireland held a referendum on whether to remove the 8th amendment – which protected the rights of the unborn and in effect banned abortion – from the Irish Constitution, with the resulting majority ‘Yes’ vote resulting in the introduction of one of the most liberal abortion regimes in the world. At Dublin’s annual March for Life, one doctor put the matter succinctly: “If you lose the soul of medicine and make it a profession of killing, if you rob medicine of conscience by expelling those who listen to their conscience, everyone is in danger.”