Posted on 12/03/2018 7:00:45 PM PST by ebb tide
Dozens of Irish doctors walked out of an emergency meeting about abortion Sunday after they said their concerns about conscience protections are being ignored.
About 300 doctors attended the meeting by the Irish College of General Practitioners EGM in Dublin to discuss the government’s plans to legalize abortions starting Jan. 1, 2019, NewsTalk reports.
Dozens walked out after complaining that leaders have been ramming through the pro-abortion legislation without consulting the medical community or giving it ample time to prepare. Many doctors also fear being forced to help abort unborn babies against their consciences.
Dr. Andrew O’Regan, speaking for the GPs who walked out, said the meeting Sunday did nothing to address their concerns, the Irish Independent reports.
“The very false impression has been created [by] the Minister for Health that general practice is a suitable setting for abortion provision,” O’Regan said. “There are a whole spectrum of opinions within our grouping that left this meeting. People who felt differently about the abortion referendum but people that are united in that we have not been listened to and that we have not been genuinely engaged with in a respectful, democratic way.”
Dr. Illona Duffy, an OB-GYN, said the Irish health system is not ready to begin providing abortions on Jan. 1, the date when the government wants every maternity hospital to start aborting unborn babies.
Duffy told Breaking News Ireland that government leaders have not given them many details or involved them in plans to legalize abortion.
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Here’s more from the report:
Dr Duffy said: “Ireland is one of the only countries where abortion services will be through GPs, it is usually through clinics. In most countries patients self-refer to clinics.”
There is a concern that GPs are already under pressure and this is an attempt to provide the service “on the cheap”.
She said: “GPs will be left dealing with this complicated process. This is being done without consultation and without taking our concerns into consideration.”
More than 640 general practitioners also signed a petition calling the pro-abortion legislation a “serious crisis,” according to the Connacht Tribune.
Fiona McHugh of Nurses and Midwives 4 Life told reporters that her group, which represents hundreds of medical workers, also has major concerns about the legislation. She said pro-abortion Health Minister Simon Harris has kept them “utterly in the dark,” though they repeatedly have asked to meet with him.
“We’ve had no meetings with Minister Harris at all …” McHugh said. “This service is to be rolled out in January and any service that is new to healthcare, there would be talk about how this is going to happen, you’d have to work through a process.
“None of this has happened, we’re completely and utterly in the dark,” she said.
Last week, the Dáil debated the pro-abortion bill, which would legalize abortion for any reason up to 12 weeks of pregnancy and up to six months in a wide variety of circumstances. It would force taxpayers to pay for abortions and force Catholic hospitals to provide them. The bill also strictly limits conscience protections for medical professionals. TDs rejected a series of amendments that would have provided at least some protections for unborn babies and taxpayers.
Hundreds of Irish doctors, nurses and midwives have been urging the health minister to meet with them to address a severe lack of conscience protections in the law. Without added protections, medical workers could be forced to help abort unborn babies or lose their jobs.
The bill would force Catholic hospitals and pregnancy centers to promote or provide abortions against their consciences as well. In September, Harris confirmed that Catholic hospitals will be forced to abort unborn babies, saying, “… conscientious objection is for individuals, not institutions.”
An October poll by Amárach found that 60 percent of Irish residents oppose taxpayer-funded abortions. In addition, a full 80 percent say health care workers should not be forced to carry out abortions against their conscience.
It's good to see some Irish M.D.'s that are more Catholic than the pope.
There is no tolerance and choice when the left attains power
Kill babies or else! You got to love the Left.
Ireland has been swirling down the drain for years, but this is law is so evil and so tyrannical it ensures the Emerald Isle is doomed.
The problem is not the Pope; the problem is that the Irish majority have abandoned God.
All brewers should boycott Ireland.
Ping
No thanks to VC II and Pope Francis.
If they have to perform abortions, why not clitoridectomies too?
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Good for the Doctors!
Abortion is a choice and a right, while the people needed to carry it out don’t have a right to refuse.
[Abortion is a choice and a right]
That cannot be referred to as a ‘right’ - certainly not a God-given Right!
Welcome to Germany in 1933, when new laws were passed and, well, everyone had to obey the state instead of their own conscience, right?
“...while the people needed to carry it out don’t have a right to refuse.”
I was being sarcastic. I tend to have a really dry sense of humor.
The Bible has a lot to say about how God views children in the womb:
“Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.” Job 10:8-11
“And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch” Leviticus 18:21
“I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.” Psalm 22:10
“From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you.” Psalm 71:6
“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.” Psalm 139:13-16
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
“And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:” Luke 1:41
“As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.” Luke 1:44
“Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven” Matthew 18:10
“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.” Luke 17:2
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, “ Galatians 1:15
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12
“And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.” Revelation 18:21
Don’t worry! Well teach you how to rip them limb from limb while they’re still alive
The Irish Left is just preparing for the muslim rapes in future.
Nobody said “the problem is the Pope”. But he certainly is a factor.
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