Ireland Facing Its Own “Roe v. Wade” As Catholic Boston College Honors the Man Ushering It In

Cybercast News Service ^ | May 10, 2013 | Kristan Hawkins

[Olog-hai]

Boston College just made the shocking announcement that Ireland's first pro-abortion Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, will be their commencement speaker and receive an honorary degree from the school.

I find it incomprehensible that BC would honor Prime Minister Kenny, knowing he is advocating for legal abortion in Ireland. It is especially appalling that a Catholic institution would so blatantly go out of its way to choose to honor a man who, breaking his own promise, is standing firmly against the teachings of his own Catholic Church on abortion—but it’s not only Catholics who should be outraged.

On April 30^th, Kenny’s coalition government introduced legislation, “The Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013,” which will legalize abortion in Ireland under the guise of preventing the suicide of pregnant women. … This is literally abortion on “demand,” and the same tactic that our Supreme Court used in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton to allow abortion in all 9 months of pregnancy, citing a loose “health of the mother” justification which the abortion industry has used for years to include “mental health.”

While not heard about much in America, pro-lifers and Christians in Ireland have been in an uproar. The Catholic Church in Ireland has denounced Kenny’s bill and called upon the Irish to lobby their elected representatives to oppose it. The Primate of Ireland, Cardinal Seán Brady, said the bill, if approved, would “make the direct and intentional killing of unborn children lawful in Ireland.” …

[Arthur McGowan]

It’s about 40 years past time for the bishops to take this kind of thing seriously. Any Jesuit who was involved in the decision to invite Kenny should be suspended—for starters.

[Venturer]

We were outraged at Notre Dame nothing was done.

Jenkins is still there.

Why get our bowels in an uproar at Boston College, after all it is Boston, That should tell you how the college feels.

Cardinal O’Malley is so mad that he is staying home, but he isn’t mad enough to do anything about it, so why should we?

[SC_Pete]

On supposedly Catholic campuses today, Marx is more popular is more popular than Christ.

[Godwin1]

And like Roe v Wade the clamor for abortion legalization is based on a case built on a lie. In Roe v Wade, the woman claimed that she had been raped, the strongest pro-abortion argument. Today Jane Roe admits she had not been raped but that her lawyers had advised her to lie in order to strengthen chances that the Justices might be moved by this emotional claim.
In Ireland, a socialist reporter writing in a left wing paper claimed a woman's life had been lost because an Irish hospital had refused to kill her unborn child. After two weeks of media hysteria, it became clear that the woman had died of an infection unrelated to the baby. Also, Irish law already permitted giving priority to saving the woman, even if the unintended consequence is the death of the child. This almost never happens.