The Americans, British and the citizens of other countries
had to accept abortion laws because they came from legislators or the court
system. Having lived in the USA for 23 years, I’ve had many conversations where
people are unhappy with being a society that aborts many of its young. But
they’re whispered, because if you are prolife, you may be labelled ‘fundamentalist’
or ‘anti-woman’.
Planned Parenthood’s lawyer Julie Kay dubbed Ireland ‘the Jewel in the Crown of the global prolife
movement’. I’m so proud of Ireland! This is an honour from the organization
whose bread and butter is abortion and who until discovered by a series of
undercover videos, were doing a brisk trade in harvesting human organs for
sale. How odd that before the termination, it was ‘just a clump of cells’ but
after, they could retrieve usable organs. It’s just one of the mental
acrobatics that have to be done to accept the unacceptable in society.
It’s difficult to write this, but I must. Ireland is facing
a big challenge, and many ex-pats including myself have a plea from the heart –
please
don’t allow Ireland to become like the USA or the UK. I worked in
Health Care for 40 years, in 4 countries, and have had several opportunities to
see legal termination of pregnancies up close. I have also to my eternal regret,
assisted in the legal ending of a pregnancy, and therefore, a human life. I haven’t
said this to many people up to now, but I must speak now, no matter what you
think of me.
This is hard to write but I will find it extremely difficult
to forgive myself if the issue is left to the mercy of legislators and I
haven’t told Irish voters – my own family and friends - about my experiences
with the abortion culture. My conscience won’t allow me to let this pass
without trying to open peoples’ eyes.
I’m familiar with the proposed legislation if Repeal passes.
It’s clearly abortion on request not just for 12 weeks but until 24. Dr. Peter Boylan has this to say about
providing abortion over 12 weeks, which has to be approved by an obstetrician
and a medical practitioner (specialty unspecified):
‘I don’t
really have a problem about them saying “serious risk” because if the woman
regards it as serious, then it is. It should be the woman’s assessment of the
risk that counts.’
Like the UK and many States here in the US.
Like the UK and many States here in the US.
I have great respect for a doctor who has spent his career looking
after thousands of mothers and babies, but like many other doctors in this day
and age, he has dehumanised one of his patients when that little one is not
wanted. He has lost the plot.
Yes, some women order abortion pills online and take them
unsupervised. This is problematic and the UK has the same problem. But the
abortion pill destroys a young life and stops a heart beating which is
programmed to beat for 80-90 years. It’s extremely destructive, like heroin or
cocaine but nobody is calling for those to be ‘regulated’.
There have been assurances that terminations of pregnancy
after 24 weeks will never intentionally result in a dead child. A case taken to
the Supreme Court, or legislation, will easily change this from delivery of a
liveborn to a stillborn, if that’s what the parents want. With the 8th
gone, all protection of the unborn baby is gone too. In the UK, cleft palate has
been enough to cause parents to opt for late-term abortions.[i]
Katherine Zappone, the Minister for Children who is hazy
about when Life begins (at conception, say the scientists) is on record as saying that abortion must
be available so that we can become a ‘Republic of Equals.’ Does this mean that
women are not equal to men because we can get pregnant? I emailed her to ask
her what she meant, and I never got a response.
One could say the reverse, that men are not equal to women
because they can’t get pregnant.
I think what she might be saying is that in order to be
equal in the workplace, women can’t be taking months and maybe years off to
have babies, and even perhaps stay at home with their small children, and go
onto what the Americans call ‘the Mommy Track.’ Women will then fall behind and
men, who don’t have uteruses - people
who don’t have uteruses that can grow babies, can forge ahead and become
executives and soon be running the company, while the mothers who have come
back to work when their children are up a bit, are taking orders from them
instead of competing with them. Inequality at the Top.
Is that what Ms. Zappone means? She never explained so I
have to draw my own conclusions. But if so, I want to say one thing – not every
person wants to climb the ladder. Men and women. It’s just assumed that everybody does. Many workers don’t want to be in
management. I was never interested, for one, and I worked with many people who
were, like me, happy enough to go home in the evening not worried about
staffing and budgets and if the Night Shift spend too much time chatting.
And all mothers say that being a mother is the most
important job in their lives.
I suppose this might be the opportune time to tell you I’m
childless, and I would have loved to have been an ‘incubator’ or a ‘vessel’. I
have my own feelings during this Debate.
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