The Journal reported Wednesday, September 25th,
that Dublin’s Mater Hospital has issued a statement to say it will comply with
the laws provided for the in the new Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act
2013. If anyone was in any doubt about the implications of the new law on
abortion and how it will be implemented this statement by Mater Hospital should
ring warning bells.
The Journal article reads;
Following ‘careful consideration’ of the new legislation, the hospital said its priority is to be at the “frontier of compassion, concern and clinical care for all our patients”.“Having regard to that duty the hospital will comply with the law as provided for in the act,” it concluded in the brief note.The article continues, (C) concerns had been raised last month when one of the members of the hospital’s board of governors and board of directors told the Irish Times that the Mater could not comply with the laws.“The Mater can’t carry out abortions because it goes against its ethos,” Fr Kevin Doran said. “I would be very concerned that the Minister [for Health, James Reilly] sees fit to make it impossible for hospitals to have their own ethos.”The Mater is one of 25 ‘appropriate institutions’ named in the act where legal terminations can take place when a woman’s life is in jeopardy.Meanwhile, the Department of Health has said the Act has still not commenced.
So what happened? What has caused this change of heart? One has to ask, did Minister for Health
James Reilly or one of his minions, see fit, as Fr Kevin Doran feared, to make
it impossible for this Catholic Hospital, and by extension every Catholic
Hospital, to have their own ethos?
This actually begs further questions. Are we now living in a
dictatorship and a very anti Catholic one at that? Are we entering into a new
phase of penal laws, this time not imposed by a foreign power but by our own
people?
I have news for James Reilly and for Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
Our sons and daughters are precious human beings, our own flesh and blood. We
will not permit you to take their lives for any reason let alone the imposition
of an ideology or the dictates of our European masters. We will not bow down to
your tyranny, we will resist in every possible, lawful, way and ‘we shall
overcome some day’. We will work to change your unjust laws but we shall do so
justly. Truth always prevails in the end
