ABSTRACT
Abortion politics in the Republic emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the form of a campaign to recognize a right to life for the 'unborn'. This campaign was instigated by a group of moral entrepreneurs who succeeded in generating a degree of moral panic about the nation's future in the face of what was perceived as encroaching global liberalism This chapter will discuss the form this panic took, as evidenced by national press coverage of the campaign.
