Ireland will go to the polls to decide whether to end a ban on abortion.

Voters will be asked whether they want to repeal the 8th amendment – a section of the Irish Constitution that gives an unborn child and its mother equal right to life.

In the run up to the vote – Sky News spent time with campaigners on both sides, along with those directly impacted by the constitutional ban on abortion.

Sky’s Senior Political Correspondent, Beth Rigby has this special report.

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This sequence uses visible (Hubble) and X-ray (Chandra) imagery to highlight different structures within the Whirlpool galaxy (Messier 51). As seen in visible light, the familiar whirlpool shape is traced out by glowing spiral arms. These arms are composed of billions of stars orbiting about the center of the galaxy over millions of years. The pink color is from hot hydrogen gas that permeates the galaxy and indicates sites of new star formation. Silhouetted in the bright arms are dark lanes of obscuring dust that blocks visible light. The stars farther away from the center orbit more slowly and fall behind, creating the signature spiral “winding” arm. A massive black hole lies at the galaxy’s center. The black hole can’t be seen directly, but its presence is hinted at by the dense star clusters at the center. A second smaller spiral galaxy can be seen in the upper-right portion of the image. The second image shows the X-ray view, highlighting the very hottest gas at millions of degrees Fahrenheit. The X-rays most closely match the visible pink hot gas in active star-forming regions and are particularly strong near the galactic centers of both galaxies. X-rays are also penetrating obscuring dust.

Video: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Image: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)