Fundamental human
rights such as the right-to-life are non-negotiable. The right to life can never be subject to a
vote. The very idea of casting votes on who should be allowed to live and who
should die is anathema.
Based on sound science, human embryos, from the moment of
fertilisation, are new living human beings.
To use the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 we
are all members of the “human family”.
From the moment of fertilisation we all share a common humanity
and human embryos are equal members of the species homo sapiens and each stage
of development is equal in value to every other stage.
There is a connection between the self-interest of certain
communities and the line to be drawn between recognition of persons and
non-persons. That self-interest may be
driven by eugenic, economic, social or political factors such that those a
society wishes to exclude are deemed to be non-persons. History is replete with examples of this
phenomenon.
However cleverly the arguments are presented the taking of a
human life the killing of a human being is a heinous crime it is called murder.
The killing of the most vulnerable human beings, unborn babies is the most
heinous of crimes and and we call on all elected members of the Oireachtas to
outrightly reject all demands for the holding of a referendum on the right to
life of unborn babies
Holding such a referendum would open the way for the
elimination of the legal protection of the right-to-life and, consequently, to
the killing of many of Ireland’s unborn children by abortion.
Accordingly a petition is being circulated to the general
public for signature and will ultimately be sent to all members of the
Oireachtas appealing to them on behalf of the people of Ireland to reject all
calls to hold a referendum on the repeal, or alteration, of the pro-life Eighth
Amendment.
To access the appeal click on the following link
