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Irish Catholic hospitals 'will have to perform abortions'
BBC ^ | June 12, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 06/13/2018 11:44:39 AM PDT by C19fan

Irish hospitals with a Catholic ethos will be expected to carry out abortions when new laws on terminations come into effect, the Irish prime minister has said.

Leo Varadkar said doctors, nurses or midwives could opt out of performing procedures on conscience grounds.

However, entire institutions will not have that option.

Mr Varadkar was addressing concerns about surgical abortions raised in the Dáil (Irish parliament).

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortions; catholic; hospital; hospitals; ireland; irish; leovaradkar; varadkar
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"Everything which is not forbidden is compulsory." -TE White.
1 posted on 06/13/2018 11:44:39 AM PDT by C19fan
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Soooo, if the docs and nurses all opt-out, will the operating room be empty?


2 posted on 06/13/2018 11:46:11 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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They all need to team up and shutdown until such law is changed. Let the Irish Government explain to their people why there is suddenly no hospital to go to.


3 posted on 06/13/2018 11:47:26 AM PDT by Revel
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Freedom means forcing others to do what you want!

Right?

Right?

4 posted on 06/13/2018 11:47:32 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: C19fan

Conveniently revealed AFTER the vote is over.


5 posted on 06/13/2018 11:48:30 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: C19fan

The Bishops have so compromised their moral authority with their homosexual debauchery, they will meekly comply.


6 posted on 06/13/2018 11:49:25 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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This will be a “Time to Choose,” as so eloquently stated by President Reagan. It will be “sheep and goats” time for Christians in those hospitals. It would be better to shut the hospitals down than to begin murdering God’s babies.


7 posted on 06/13/2018 11:56:14 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Forcing people to choose between their jobs and their faith. A favorite tactic of the atheist left.


8 posted on 06/13/2018 11:57:33 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media deliberately and intentionally chooses to lie, with full awareness and knowledge.)
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To: rjsimmon

I’d deduce the same.


9 posted on 06/13/2018 11:59:28 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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Dear ‘Catholic’ hospitals...
NO, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO murder innocent babies.

it is up to YOU

(not the state or anyone else on earth)

YOU DECIDE and YOU TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY, the good Lord is NOT going to accept “I only obeyed orders” as any kind of excuse)


10 posted on 06/13/2018 12:00:12 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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Bake that cake! Murder that Baby!

No wonder George Washington warned of Government as an evil force.

Prayers for victims of tyranny here, there, and everywhere.


11 posted on 06/13/2018 12:01:58 PM PDT by Kalamata (bibleresearchtools.com)
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They all need to team up and shutdown until such law is changed.

Sounds like an excellent plan. Secular hospitals can do abortions, people shouldn't be forced to violate their consciences for an elective procedure. Ever notice that nothing matters except the promotion of social justice? All standing in its way need to be crushed & ground exceedingly finely.

12 posted on 06/13/2018 12:08:02 PM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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However, entire institutions will not have that option.

So, people of good conscience will not be able to contribute to Catholic hospitals knowing that their money will be used to perform murder in the womb.

Catholic hospitals that depend on charitable donations to supply health care to the poor will need to scale back operations or close their doors.

13 posted on 06/13/2018 12:09:38 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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That is just what happened to many Catholic adoption agencies. Place with homosexuals or close...they closed.


14 posted on 06/13/2018 12:09:42 PM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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Shocking. What the British couldn’t do in 1,000 years, the Irish are doing to themselves. Utterly revolting. If we had a strong Pope in Rome, the country would be under interdict by now.


15 posted on 06/13/2018 12:12:53 PM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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Promoted by the British to kill of the Irish people? Seems like over recent months it was British and others trying to get the Irish to kill off their babies.


16 posted on 06/13/2018 12:15:25 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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All Catholic hospitals must refuse.

Francis must publicly affirm their right to do so.

Abortion is murder.


17 posted on 06/13/2018 12:19:42 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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The use of “Nazi” is no longer hyperbolic


18 posted on 06/13/2018 12:25:54 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: C19fan

Shut ‘em down....walk away.....


19 posted on 06/13/2018 12:27:24 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: faithhopecharity

The Irish, like so many in the Western World are choosing to die out. Ireland from what I have witnessed, is rotting from within. The native population of these countries becomes worthless and abort themselves out of existence as governments import replacement people mostly from the Mideast.


20 posted on 06/13/2018 12:36:50 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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