Yeah, well,  Paul VI's Humanae Vitae is an abomination to many Catholics and theologians who believe not just in the Bible but also in God's gift to man of science, an embarrassing hearkening back to the days of persecuting Galileo.  John-Paul II's embrace of that nutty encyclical was especially disturbing to many who expected more from him. Even many who are anti-abortion feel this way, as anyone who understands the process knows all conceptions do not end up in pregnancy, that many fertilized eggs naturally end up on sanitary pads in garbage cans and flushed down toilets when they don't manage to stay attached to the uterine wall.

It's all the more outrageous because even during snd before the days of persecuting people like Galileo, it was pretty standard for both the religious and scholars to consider the quickening of human life to happen around the third month of pregnancy.

As far as the Irish making this secular law, I have never been able to figure out why they cling to a troglodyte Catholicism after modernizing in so many other ways, and after experiencing so many scandals with the very same church.