PR: YD Condemns Rotunda’s Barbaric Plans
04.03.2001
Youth Defence has condemned the Routunda Hospital for declaring its intent to dispose of child embryos artificially created for use in the IVF procedure. The fact that the Rotunda has said that a Yes vote on Wednesday’s referendum would authorise the disposal of unborn children should be a warning to the pro-life majority who are being deceived the Government.
Speaking in Dublin today,(Monday, March 4th 2001), Eoghan De Faoite, the PRO for the organisation said that “the declared intention of the Rotunda was a denial of the right to life of the unborn child prior to implantation” and that it was now irrefutable that the Government’s current abortion proposal “was deliberately framed to allow such unethical and immoral actions by unscrupulous members of the medical profession.” He also asked Dr Peter McKenna, the Master of the Rotunda Hospital, to publicly confirm whether the removal of legal protection from the unborn child prior to implanation was a factor in his call for a Yes vote on March 6th.
Youth Defence, in common with many of the other pro-life groups, have campaigned vigorously to fully inform the electorate that a No vote is a vote against abortion. This is not the pro-life referendm that the Irish people have consistently demanded since 1992; in fact it is a re-run of the 1992 referendum which offered the people limited abortion.
The 1992 referendum was rejected by the electorate who are entitled to vote in a referendum which offers a clear choice on this important issue. Youth Defence remain confident that this amendment will also be rejected and call for the resignation of the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern for wilfully misleading the Irish people.
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