Posted on 03/09/2018 8:10:10 AM PST by Olog-hai
Proposals are being drawn up on “the nature and scope” of introducing a free contraceptive service, Minister for Health Simon Harris has said.
He said he would seek approval in a few weeks for a series of measures to further support women and improve access to counseling, contraception and perinatal care.
“If our underlying principle is that abortion should be safe, legal and rare, then we must do all we can to reduce the number of crisis pregnancies and to support women in every way,” Mr. Harris added.
The Minister was introducing in the Dáil on Friday the Thirty-Sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018, paving the way for the abortion referendum.
“The Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill is not just about giving the people of Ireland a say on how they believe we should now proceed,” Mr. Harris said. It was about “giving the people of Ireland a say on how Ireland treats women. It is about how our country treats our sisters, our wives, mothers, daughters, our friends and colleagues at a time when they most need our care.” …
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What, exactly, is a "crisis pregnancy"? Did the girl all of a sudden realize that she is pregnant and did not know that riding some guy a month or so ago would not result in becoming so? And how is that now a public funded concern?
Ireland needs to protect preborn babies instead of authorizing women to murder them.
Right to Life advocates need to stop embracing the term crisis pregnancy, because it associates something negative, “crisis”, with something natural, “pregnancy”.
The cheapest and safest birth control is keeping your knees together. And it doesn’t take a village.
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