Irish Government passes anti life “Protection of Life in Pregnancy Bill 2013”

The Irish Government has passed all stages if the so called “Protection of Life in Pregnancy Bill 2013” which will now be sent to the President Michael D Higgins for signature.

The passing of this pro-abortion legislation is to be deplored and we put the Irish Government on notice that the pro-life people of Ireland will work without ceasing to have this anti-life legislation overturned as soon as possible no matter what it takes, commencing with an immediate legal challenge to its constitutionality.

The Parliamentary debates of both the lower and upper houses of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) were long and arduous and a small number of heroic deputies on all sides of the two chambers were seen to stand head and shoulders over their party colleagues, in some cases even defying the party whip and voting in accordance with their consciences, despite the consequences.

The passing of the legislation however raises a number of questions, which will have to be carefully pondered by the pro-life community in the continuing war against the unborn. 

• WHY is it that the current Irish government will only listen to the pro-abortion agenda

• WHY is the Irish print and broadcasting media so biased against unborn life and persist in championing abortion and pushing it at every opportunity

• WHY does the government ignore and dismiss the pro-life voice and paint it as extremist

• WHY does the Government ignore the vast numbers of Irish men and women who voted with their feet and attended the various pro-life vigils and rallies ranging from 10,000 in December and rising to 25,000 in January, 40,000 in June and finally around 60,000 in July

• WHY does the Government believe they can ignore the majority without facing future consequences.

There are also some questions about how Ireland came to be in this position in the first place. The pro-life community know for example that it was brought about as a result of sustained pressure from both national and international pro-abortion organisations such as the Irish Family Planning Association which is a branch of International Planned Parenthood (IPPF) the largest abortion provider in the world.

• How for example did three women who did not know one another one being a non-national get together to take a case against the Irish Government to the European Court Of Human Rights (ECtHR) in order to force this change in Ireland’s laws

• Who financed them in taking this case against the Irish Government the ECtHR

• How were the grounds for taking the case prepared and by whom.

• How was the European Convention on Human Rights subverted in reaching the decision in the A,B and C case and real justice denied in the ECtHR

• What other international pro-abortion organizations were behind the outright attack on Ireland’s pro-life laws.

Senate debate pro-abortion legislation

Debate continues on the Senate on the Protection of Life in Pregnancy Bill 2013 with the Government rejecting proposed amendments for rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormality all of which are unconstitutional according to James Reilly and to include them would mean that any legal challenge to the bill would succeed and the bill would fall.

Controversy arose during the debate on the second stage when Senator Jim Walsh reminded the Senate that, “human life is inviolate from conception to natural death” and continued by describing the consequences of abortion for post abortive women. Broken relationships are common. Flashbacks may occur, sometimes when passing hospitals or clinics. There may be alcohol abuse, or drug abuse or “sexual promiscuity and other forms of addiction”.

Senator Walsh included case histories such as those of a woman cutting her wrists 17 years after the event; a 16-year-old on her 10th overdose; a 50-year-old suffering severe depression; and a 25-year-old man who “starts using hallucinogenic drugs to get in touch with his lost child”.

Senator Walsh criticised the “sanitised language” to which people are prone in the abortion debate and went on to describe how abortions are actually carried out.

the cervix is dilated and a suction pump inserted, limbs are pulled out and, with a clamp, “tear out the spine, intestine, heart and lungs”. That “white gelatinous material” is the brains. “Many times a little face will come out and stare back at you.”

 “Colleagues, that is what you are being asked to vote for,” stated Walsh, before finishing with a poem about an aborted baby crying on its way to the incinerator.

Needless to say the pro-abortion lobby was furious and the media have been exploiting both the intervention and the responses