Posted on 12/19/2012 6:48:59 AM PST by marshmallow
Ireland is to legalise abortions when the mother's life is at risk, including when she is suicidal, in an historic move expected to spark a major battle with the Roman Catholic church.
Ireland’s cabinet took the decision on Tuesday following a huge public outcry over the death of Savita Halappanavar, a pregnant woman in October who died after her repeated requests for an abortion were refused while she was suffering a miscarriage.
The Irish government has decided to repeal legislation that makes abortion a criminal act and to introduce regulations setting out when doctors can perform an abortion when a woman’s life is regarded as being at risk, including by suicide.
Dr James Reilly, the Irish health minister, said that the government was aware of the controversy surrounding abortion.
"I know that most people have personal views on this matter. However, the government is committed to ensuring that the safety of pregnant women in Ireland is maintained and strengthened. We must fulfil our duty of care towards them," he said.
"For that purpose, we will clarify in legislation and regulation what is available by way of treatment to a woman when a pregnancy gives rise to a threat to a woman's life. We will also clarify what is legal for the professionals who must provide that care while at all times taking full account of the equal right to life of the unborn child."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The Catholic Church will lose that battle just like they've lost it here in the US. The West is falling away from religion and becoming more secular.
The first step on the road to hell.
Abortion will be legal until it is outlawed under Sharia.
BINGO! you win a cigar!
I have an extended family member who married into a family of Irish expats. After visits back to Ireland they always remark on how the whole moral and cultural atmosphere of the place has been going “straight down the loo” since they became part of the E.U.
Over ten centuries of genocide and dispossession at the hands of evil heretics will all be finally forgiven...
...just great.
Here is the truth about the Savita case. Pro abort advocates twisted what happened to suit their ends. This is a common Liberal tactic.
Please note these 2 very important facts that contradict the claims of the pro abort crowd.
“3 | Existing Irish medical guidelines are clear that intervention may be necessary in cases like Dr. Savita’s.
Medical guidelines currently in place clearly state that intervention, including termination of pregnancy, may be proper in exceptional cases like Dr. Savita’s:
“In current obstetrical practice, rare complications can arise where therapeutic intervention (including termination of a pregnancy) is required at a stage when, due to extreme immaturity of the baby, there may be little or no hope of the baby surviving. In these exceptional circumstances, it may be necessary to intervene to terminate the pregnancy to protect the life of the mother, while making every effort to preserve the life of the baby.”
Source: Medical Council Guide for Registered Medical Practitioners, Section 21.4
4 | There is no evidence of an ethos among the doctors that treated Dr. Savita, or those anywhere in Ireland, that would have prevented her life from being saved.
Irish law and medical guidelines allow for life-saving treatment for the mother in cases like Dr. Savita’s, but Irish doctors in this case and generally also recognize this principle.
Dr. Sam Coulter-Smith, master of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin said:
“I think most of us who work in obstetrics and gynaecology, there may be individual differences, but the majority would be of the view that if the health is such a risk that there is a risk of death and we are dealing with a foetus that is not viable, there is only one answer to that question, we bring the pregnancy to an end.”
There was also nothing against Catholic teaching to prevent saving Savita’s life. Though the news keeps referring to the treatment as a “termination” it was not a termination. The mother was already in labor, it had already been determined that the fetus had no chance of survival and she had a life threatening condition. Drugs to hasten labor at this point would not have gone against Catholic teaching that allows for treatment to save the life even if it results in the death of a fetus. The fetus was already dying. The doctor erred. Not the Church and not Irish law or medical ethics.
Oh come on, that’s just sheer bigotry. You can’t judge all Irish Catholics by the standards of the 80% who can’t speak for themselves because they have their tongues wedged firmly up their priest’s butt. Only a bare absolute majority supported State theft of farms and the ethnic cleansing of undesirable anglo-Irish loyalists, and only most of them agreed with backing Hitler in WW2.
Here is a discussion of a case very similar to Sativa’s
http://ldysinger.stjohnsem.edu/ThM_599d_Beg/11a_alt-per_hosp/00a_start.htm
The case is down the page a bit and is titled “TRANSFER of a PATIENT REQUESTING INDUCTION of LABOR at EIGHTEEN WEEK”
The big difference in the two cases is that the woman was pregnant with twins and only one of the twins had already descended into the cervix. This meant that the dying twin could not be delivered without the other twin being delivered which would cause that twin’s death. The request was refused and the patient was transferred. From the discussion,
“1) The twin that had descended into the cervix was dying, and no medical treatment could prevent this infant’s death.”
“3) It was not medically possible to deliver only the dying twin without also delivering the second twin, as well: thus inducing labor would necessarily result in the death of both twins.”
The pro abortion crowd do not care about facts they are determined that killing pre born babies is considered a right above all other rights. If they were honest they would press for the rights of parents to kill infants up to a certain age and with certain disabilities.
That’s amazing. Until recently, divorce was illegal in Ireland.
My Dublin born paternal grandmother escaped the fascist occupation of the UK Prods, where many of our family perished from British enforced privation, to marry my grandfather in NYC.
Revisionism does not suit you—I admire Churchill but he was a typical Prod bigot when it came to “kerns” and “Piedmont Diggers.”
Is the Catholic Church alone in fighting that battle?
If so, why?
...thus it's rise or fall is very important to all of Christ's followers.
American Catholics have always sentimentalized Ireland to a ridiculous degree. Ever since the “flight of the wild geese” left Ireland without its indigenous upper classes Irish nationalism has been very left wing. Since Wolfe Tone there has been no traditional Catholic Irish nationalism except in American pubs.
They've only been heretics for the last five centuries. The first five they were good Catholics.
I stand corrected—in the beginning the foo foo Frenchy English just hated and butchered non English and after the Saxons and Welsh were decimated the Irish were just nearby and next.
Therein lies part of our (Christians in general) problem ... Big Media is trying to divide and conquer. I know that the Catholic Church is not alone, because I have worked right-to-life issues with other Christians (primarily Baptists and stand-alone church evangelical protestants). It does nobody any good for those folks to be ignored.
The Saxons were the Original English. The Normans were originally Norse-French invaders. It took centuries for the two groups to meld into a single nationality.
The Norman conquest of Ireland had the blessing of the Pope. Read a little history.
Perhaps you don't realize how much like current Third World Marxism this Celtic "we've been oppressed!" line sounds like. Celtic nationalism has been consistently left wing for a very long time now (probably longest in Ireland, but in the rest of the Celtic fringe as well). Sorry, but a conservative forum is the wrong place for sympathizers of left wing nationalism to spew crypto-Marxist verbiage. It isn't going to be received well.
No one picks their ancestors . . . no one. I didn't choose to be of English descent any more than I chose to be white or American or rural or Southern, but I'm not going to smile at you or anyone else for putting those groups down. How would you like it if someone tried to make you ashamed of your ancestors?
I am not a chrstian. Please take your Catholic vs. Protestant argument elsewhere.
Correction: SOME American Catholics have always sentimentalized Ireland to a ridiculous degree.
And some have not. Some of us, in fact, are bloody tired of it. From my perspective, it seems to be primarily northeast urban Catholics doing the Irish Sentimentalization ... and Hollywierd picking up on and amplifying it.
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