Posted on 01/30/2018 6:57:58 PM PST by marshmallow
Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says he will campaign to repeal the amendment that protects the right to life of the unborn child
Ireland will hold a referendum in May on whether to lift a constitutional ban on abortion, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has confirmed.
Varadkar spoke after meeting with his cabinet to discuss details of the referendum on the Eighth Amendment, which guarantees the right to life of the unborn child.
Currently, abortion is only permitted when the mother’s life is in danger.
Varadkar said he will campaign to repeal the amendment, and his government will prepare legislation to allow unrestricted abortions up to 12 weeks if the referendum passes.
“My own views have evolved over time,” he said. “Life experience does that.”
“It is a matter for people to make their own decision based on the evidence they hear, compassion and empathy and I want the debate to be respectful on all sides and it should never be personalized,” he added.
Dr Ruth Cullen of the Irish Pro Life Campaign said the vote was “a very sad and serious moment for our country.”
“Tonight, the Government brought forward a proposal that for the first time in our history would withdraw basic human rights from a group of vulnerable defenceless individuals instead of strengthening their constitutional protections,” she said.
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Truth does not evolve.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechjudgmentatnuremberg3.html
Applicable to this holocaust as well.
Amen, sir. This video, too, puts this Holocaust (for that is an accurate term) into painful perspective:
Click here, but caution—it is graphic, and quite necessarily so.
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