The Irish government will announce the members of a committee that will examine whether or not changes to legislation are required regarding abortion, following the European Court of Human Rights ruling on the ABC case. At the ruling in Strausbourg in December, the ECHR gave the Irish Government six months to prepare a plan, in which they outline the actions they have taken and will take to execute the ECHR judgment on the ABC case. Pro-life activists have said that the first step the government should take is to tell the Council of Europe to desist from interfering in Ireland's sovereign right to ban abortion.

The members of this committee will consist of medical and legal experts, who will make recommendations to the coalition Government on Ireland's pro-life laws and determine whether or not they comply with the European Convention on Human Rights.

A Government spokesman confirmed last night that they were finalizing a plan to submit to the Council of Europe but could not comment on the details of the plan. But it is believed that Fine Gael and Labour will work together on the proposal and will jointly establish this committee to address the issue of abortion. Since Labour strongly favour abortion-on-demand, the may not be good news.

In the lead-up to the general election at the beginning of this year, Eamon Gilmore and Enda Kenny disagreed on the issue of abortion. Gilmore told RTE's News at One that he would introduce abortion on 'life and health' grounds. This is the same model that the UK uses, which results in more than 180,000 dead babies every year, in lunchtime abortions, and in abortion right through until birth for children with disabilities. Taoiseach Enda Kenny, on the other hand, said he believed the response to the ECHR judgment was to take the issue of abortion to an Oireachtas committee to decide what to do.

Last week, the Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe, Thomas Hammarberg, met last week with Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter and unnamed "human rights groups." Hammarberg then issued a demand that the Irish government should legislate for abortion and they needed to "clarify" when women can have abortions under the current law.

The meeting between Gilmore and Hammarberg is particularly suspicious, since he has been publicly pushing for the country to legalize abortion since before the last general election. It's part of the pre-arranged, choreographed political ploy, to bully Ireland on abortion.

This is the time for every pro-life person in Ireland to loudly proclaim to Europe that Ireland is pro-life, and that the Irish people are sovereign nation and we will not allow our human rights to be hijacked.
Former MEP Dana Rosemary Scallon said "It is not the job of Council of Europe Commissioners to act as tourists going around Europe promoting abortion. An unelected Commissioner has no right to bully and intimidate the Irish people or seek out politicians who would provide an 'open door' for their agenda."

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