PR: Well Woman and CPA Endanger Women
11.07.2006
During the 1992 Referenda, the Government promised that the Amendment relating to Abortion Information would relate to information alone and specifically pledged that this would not mean abortion referral. Although at that time Youth Defence warned against taking the Government’s guarantee at face value, there is no doubt whatever, that when the Irish people agreed to the Amendment that this guarantee to prohibit abortion referral weighed very heavily with them, and convinced them that no government thereafter would or could break face with such specific and unequivocal assurances.
The most pessimistic prophecy of Youth Defence has however proved frighteningly accurate. No amount of evasion or circumlocution on the meaning of referral can escape the fact the current Minister for Health, Michael Noonan, T.D. has proposed legislation which is in substance contrary to all the promises made to the Irish people at the time of the referenda and an affront both to democratic honesty and more importantly human decency. There can be no doubt that the legalisation of the provision of names and addresses as well as phone numbers of abortion clinics in England is a blunt instrument for abortion assistance which will result in the deaths of thousands of pre-born Irish children. The responsibility which each member of the Dail and Seanad will bear for those deaths if this Bill is passed will be very personal. It will be innocent blood which will be impossible to wash away. The mothers who are taken advantage of by the unscrupulous abortion sales man will not forgive them either for this Bill which will wreck as many lives as it exterminates.
Lies told about counselling convince no one and the Bill constitutes an assault on current medical ethics spreading the death culture of abortion into doctor’s surgeries up and down the country. Decent doctors know that when treating a pregnant woman they have two patients equally precious and equally needful of their best care and attention. The Government’s suggestion that doctors ought to sacrifice the high ideals of their profession and co-operate with the butcher-house mentality that prevails in these so-called clinics sets a dangerous precedent for all pregnant women and not just those with what are called crisis pregnancies.
Youth Defence calls upon the Government to think again to formulate a Bill in keeping with the Irish people’s real wishes, to provide for life supporting abortion information which means telling the true facts about this enormous crime; to in fact produce legislation with which their consciences can be clear. We call upon the opposition parties to wholeheartedly reject what is in fact an abortion referral bill and we call upon the Irish people to make their abhorrence of this cruel betrayal of their trust known to every public representative - the fate of the innocent lies in our hands.
Youth Defence have in the past sought to ensure that those responsible for legalising the murder of Irish children, can not hide behind the cloak of Ministerial responsibility.
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