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The fine man that is Christy Moore has recorded a video for the group 'Grandparents for Repeal'. 

In the video, the singer-songwriter explains why he will be voting YES in next week's referendum. 

"I'm voting yes because I think every woman should be given the right to choose her own destiny. I don't think I have any right… I don't even think I have the right to tell somebody how to vote, never mind telling a woman how she should be in her own body."

"Vote with your own conscience, look inside, think about your own daughter, your own sister, your own granddaughter, if they were in some of the terrible situations that women find themselves in, would you not want to help them? Would you not want the right thing for them?"

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The Ride On singer then made a dark, but very valid point.

"Would you force a 14-year-old granddaughter who'd been raped to go through with the pregnancy? We have to think about these things."

Christy also mentioned his late mother, who would have been 93 this year:

"If my mother was alive today, she'd be asking all her sons and daughters to vote yes."

Major respect to Christy for coming out and voicing his beliefs! 

Watch the whole video here folks:

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Carol Hunter, founder of Grandparents for Repeal, former deputy Labour leader Liz Mc Manus, retired Supreme Court judge Catherine McGuinness, former education minister Gemma Hussey and broadcaster and journalist Vincent Browne will all be in Dublin this morning to officially launch Grandparents for Repeal.

The parents of Ruth Bowie who travelled to Britain for a termination after receiving a fatal foetal abnormality diagnosis will be in attendance, along with  Dr Siobhan Donohue who also travelled to Britain after receiving a similar diagnosis on her third child.

Veteran activist Frank Crummey, Midwife Philomena Canning and the parents of Arlette Lyons who also travelled to Britain after an FFA diagnosis will also be there. 

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When asked about why she founded the group, Carol Hunter said "I founded this group as a grandmother talking to my age-group and then realised that this demographic was least in favour of repealing the Eighth Amendment."

"I therefore focussed on their genuinely held concerns by providing them with data, information and testimony that allows a change of narrative, showing that terminations are part of life and needed in a plethora of circumstances," she continued.

Grandparents for Repeal has no political affiliations. It is a civic-based group and a member of Together for Yes.

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