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Irish pro-lifers hold vigil against abortion legislation

Published: December 06, 2012

Thousands of Irish pro-life demonstrators packed the street outside of the Dáil Eireann in Dublin for a Vigil for Life on Tuesday, calling on the legislature not to pass any laws that would allow abortion, reports the Catholic News Agency.

“We need to ensure that both our mothers and babies are best protected by banning abortion,” said Niamh Ui Bhrian of the Ireland pro-life group Life Institute.

Attendees at the candlelight vigil included adults, children, college students, clergy and church groups, who asked the government to protect both mothers and their unborn babies.

Some carried signs asking Ireland's Prime Minister Enda Kenny to “keep his pro-life promise” which the Fine Gael party leader made in the 2011 election.

The Irish government is debating an expert group's 58-page report on abortion that advocates abortion legislation and abortion regulation, the Irish newspaper The Independent reports.

The report is a response to a 2010 decision from the European Court of Human Rights that ruled that Ireland’s abortion laws do not protect the pregnant mother’s constitutional right to life, which the Irish Supreme Court established in 1992.

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  1. Thanks for the accurate headline about pro-lifers. Most of the Irish media described the rally as an 'anti-abortion' one. That's not inaccurate but it gives the story a different colour.
    There is no proof whatever that the alleged refusal of an abortion had anything to do with the death of Savita Halappanavar and her child. Many of the pro-abortion advocates have ignored the latter's death.
    According to The Irish Times Dr Halappanavar's death was the first such in Galway University Hospital for 17 years [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/1124/1224327042395.html]. That has been ignored by the pro-abortion lobby. I have read that some of the hospital staff are distressed about the way they are being implicitly maligned and condemned internationally.
    The rejoicing in Britain and elsewhere about Kate's pregnancy - about 12 weeks - is not about a 'blob of tissue' or 'part of her body' but about a possible future monarch of the UK and of other countries, already a real human being. Yet in England and Wales last year there were 189,931 legal abortions. [http://mediacentre.dh.gov.uk/2012/05/29/abortion-statistics-england-wales-2011/]. But none of these was a possible future monarch. We'll never know what gifts they might have brought to our world.

    Posted By: Fr Sean Coyle

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