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PR: Shock at Adelaide Hospital Society Submission
15.05.1998
Youth Defence has received the further revelations concerning the Adelaide Society's submission on abortion with what can only be described as a deep sense of shock and disgust. The Society seems determined to align itself with the very worst elements in this debate, such as the I.F.P.A. and others, in calling for a bloody assault on the children of Ireland. We find particularly heinous the references to proposals on the abortion of the handicapped which are no less than the return to the mentality of subsistence tribalism.
Nothing in the elements of the submission thus far revealed would indicate either a proper sense of responsibility on their part or sound medical judgement. The issue of "medically indicated" abortions has long since been settled to the satisfaction of any reasonable person and to raise again the spectre of women's lives at risk is dishonest in the extreme.
Under the circumstances the members of the Adelaide Society responsible for this submission have no honourable course open to them other than their immediate resignation and replacement by persons more capable of conducting the affairs of a hospital, which is surely to be a place of healing and recovery and not a death centre for children.
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