Posted on 07/01/2023 10:41:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A “Rally for Life” took place in Dublin city center today to ask the Government to address what it describes as “spiraling” abortion rates and the need to retain the three-day wait before an abortion can take place.
Around 3,000 people attended the Rally for Life event, which began at the Garden of Remembrance at 1 pm. It then traveled down O’Connell Street before speeches took place on the quays. […]
“We now know that the abortion numbers jumped 22% last year,” Rally for Life spokesperson Megan Ní Scealláin said.
“There were 8,156 abortions in 2022 — up from an estimated 6,700 the previous year. This rise is both steep and deeply disturbing, and it’s also heartbreaking. We’re seeing calls for the three-day wait before abortion to be scrapped — even though about 4,000 women between 2019-2022 did not return for an abortion after the three-day period of reflection,” she said. …
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Ireland held out the longest before embracing abortion. This is reassuring news.
Hail, St. Patrick.
Actually, Northern Ireland never embraced abortion; it was the last place in the British Isles that rejected it until Westminster forced it on them.
When the voters of the Republic of Ireland overwhelmingly approved abortion in 2018, I predicted on this very site that the worldwide pro-life movement’s fortunes would soon take a turn for the better. Ireland is notoriously backward as a culture and society, and they have an uncanny knack for jumping on bandwagons at the 11th hour. For the Irish to go all-in on abortion was a contrarian indicator. Thus it came as little surprise that Roe v. Wade soon fell
I suspect fraud with that vote, engineered by the EU; it’s too radical a change from the Eighth Amendment a mere 35 years before the Thirty-Sixth Amendment.
As a DNA relative of Michael Collins I have been very disappointed with Ireland’s shift toward evil.
This is welcomed news,
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