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| Competing signs in Dublin on Friday.Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters |
Voters in Ireland appear to have overturned the country’s abortion ban, according to two exit polls released Friday night.
One poll, conducted for The Irish Times, showed wide support — 68 percent to 32 percent — for the repeal of a constitutional amendment that has essentially outlawed abortion.
A second exit poll, by RTE Television, showed similar results, with nearly 70 percent of respondents saying they had voted to repeal the amendment, The Associated Press reported.
Exit polling is not necessarily predictive, however, and the actual counting of votes cast in a referendum on Friday will not begin until 9 a.m. Saturday. Official results are expected to be announced late Saturday afternoon.
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