Good question, Noel. You may want to run that by Sheila Hodgers who was refused treatment for cancer in Catholic controlled Ireland because she was pregnant outside marriage. Actually you can't ask her. She died, as did her baby that the pro-lifers care so much about.

Or get an opinion from Eileen Flynn who was sacked from her teaching job because she was pregnant and not married.

Or ask any gay Irish person who was criminalised for their sexuality, or any woman who had to travel to a foreign land for a termination, regardless of the reason, or any Irish people who were not allowed to access contraception, or any amount of women in the Industrial schools or laundries run by the Church, or any of the abused kids or the families of suicide victims who weren't allowed to be buried in 'consecrated' ground.

Or just ask any Joe Soap who can't get a pint of Guinness on Good Friday because the Catholic Church had such control over every aspect of Irish society that it shut the pubs.