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The private members’ bill was defeated, but:

From the The Irish Family Planning Association:

We welcome the Government’s firm commitment to implement the judgment of the A, B and C v Ireland case during the Dáil debate on the Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012.

Rather than support the Bill, the Government parties opted to wait for the report of the expert group that they have established. The expert group will make recommendations regarding the implementation of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the A, B and C v Ireland case. Minister James O’Reilly was unequivocal in his commitment to act when the expert group reports in July.

IFPA Chief Executive Niall Behan said: “The IFPA welcomes the Government’s commitment to the prompt implementation of the A, B and C judgment. This undertaking needs to be followed up by the immediate publication of the Government expert group’s report and a clearly outlined timeframe for action.

“This debate was a significant event in Irish politics. There was cross-party agreement that the Dáil must address the failure to provide for the limited right to abortion guaranteed by the X case and the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the A, B and C case. Such consensus demonstrates an increased appreciation on the part of elected representatives of the reality of abortion in Irish women’s lives and a better understanding of the appropriate political responses to crisis pregnancies.”

A, B and C v Ireland case?

Earlier: She So Forni

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

 

Removed?

Oh come on.

Surely, he was only saying what we’re all thinking?

What about a woman’s right to choose? Well in Britain, that has just run into the moral brick wall of selective abortions, whereby mothers of Asian origin are having sex-scans, and then having the foetus aborted if female. Sorry: what was that mantra about “a woman’s right to choose”? The recent feminist indignation in Britain over this “gendercide” would almost be entertaining if the moral complexity and implicit human tragedy were less horrifying (the foetus has to be well-advanced before her sex can be identified, at which point the little girl is beheaded in utero, before the inconvenient she-matter is hosed out of the womb). Consequence, you see; every single human decision has a consequence. It’s as well to remember that the next time you vote for someone’s “rights”.

Oh.

More Here

This is all we need.

“There is deep-seated opposition to abortion in Ireland,” said Niamh Ui Bhriain (above) of the Life Institute. “If pro-abortion campaigners believe that Irish people are behind a move to legalize abortion, bring on the referendum.”

There has long been a concern that joining the European Union would eventually lead to more liberal abortion legislation. When Ireland signed the Maastricht Treaty in 1991, it inserted a clause to safeguard Irish abortion laws from E.U. interference.

For anti-abortion groups, the European human rights court ruling has confirmed their fears, particularly when the country as a whole is beholden to international financial help to keep afloat.

“At this time, when the E.U. and I.M.F. are actually running our country and we have lost every bit of sovereignty, the last thing people want is an outside agency making an intrusive judgement,” said Ms. Bhriain. “What we are seeing here is abortion campaigners using external courts in a bid to have abortion imposed on Irish people. If our laws make us different from everyone else in the European Union, I am glad of that difference.”

 

Irish Poised to Revisit Abortion Law (Carol Ryan, New York Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

In 2003 there were 3000 people on death row in America.

Many protested their innocence and some (up to 3 per cent) are believed to have been the victims of miscarriages of justice.

In fact 10 wrongfully convicted defendants were released from death row in 2003.

Paul Hill (above) was not among them. He was proud to have murdered Florida abortion clinic doctor John Britton and his bodyguard, James Barrett in cold blood (He also wounded Barrett’s wife, June).

Following his arrest and up to his execution Hill, a former presbyterian minister, urged fellow anti-abortion activists: “I think more people should act as I have acted.”

He said God had made him do it.

He also waived all his rights to appeal to commute his sentence and accepted his fate.

So, why did Gay Mitchell and Fine Gael choose to intervene to help Paul Hill (a man who evidently supported the concept of a death penalty) when there were many more deserving cases on death row to plead for clemency in 2003.

Lines close at 5.30pm.

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