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Ireland will be conducting a referendum to decide if relaxing its laws on abortion is what the people want, The Guardian reports.
Abortion has always been a divisive issue in once stridently Catholic Ireland.
The poll will ask voters if they wish to repeal an amendment to the constitution that was added after the 1983 referendum, which enshrined the equal right to life of the mother and the unborn child.
However, women are free to travel overseas for abortions and thousands do so every year, mainly to England.
Abortion is illegal unless there is a real and substantial risk to the life of the mother, and a woman convicted of having an illegal termination faces 14 years imprisonment.
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If Ireland votes in favour of repeal, the government has said it will introduce legislation permitting unrestricted abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. The UN's human rights committee has condemned the ban as "cruel, inhuman and degrading".
Simon Harris, Minister for Health, said it was crucial there was a high voter turnout for this. Polls will open at 7am on 25 May and close at 10pm.
The date was announced by the Irish Minister for Housing and Local Government Eoghan Murphy shortly after the country's Senate gave a go-ahead with the referendum by 40 votes to ten on Wednesday, completing all the legal procedures required for the government to hold such a referendum in the country. "If you feel as strongly as we do that there needs to be change in this area, you need to come out and vote".
Senator Ivana Bacik, who nearly went to jail for distributing information about abortion clinics in England to Irish students in the 1990s, said opponents of reform were "in denial about the hypocrisy of Irish law". More than 10,000 "pro-life" campaigners rallied in Dublin this month to oppose the referendum while "pro-choice" advocates hope to tap into the support that saw Ireland become the first country in the world to back gay marriage in a referendum in 2015.
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