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Hello and welcome to more or less, the program that does a three-legged race with the world of statistics

as we gamely try not to trip each other up.

This week we try to count the victims of modern slavery.

We talk to the world's leading expert on forecasting about the strengths and

weaknesses of

hedgehogs and math versus maths. Are the North Americans just wrong or

obviously the North Americans are just wrong? But first in two weeks time the Republic of Ireland is holding a

referendum into whether to make changes to its strict abortion laws. Ireland's

Constitution states that the life of the fetus and the life of the mother have the same value which effectively prevents abortion unless a pregnant woman is in immediate danger of dying

If the Constitution is changed then the Irish government says it will pass legislation to allow abortions in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

At the moment, a woman convicted of having an illegal abortion faces up to 14 years in prison.

We've been inundated with emails and tweets from listeners asking us to look at some of the statistics

that keep coming up during the course of the campaigns for and against changing the law.

The one that's caught the most attention is a claim that's appeared on posters saying,

In Britain, limited abortion kills one in five babies.

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