Posted on 08/13/2022 6:39:13 PM PDT by marshmallow
Pro-life campaigners and advocates for religious freedom in Ireland have expressed dismay following the news that the Irish Government intends to introduce fines and prison sentences for people who pray, hold signs, or try to persuade women not to have abortions while they are within the vicinity of an abortion facility.
The proposed legislation would mean that individuals would not be allowed to express pro-life views within 100m of abortion facilities while also prohibiting silent prayer, the holding of placards, and any peaceful offers of alternatives to abortion.
Pro-life activists have reacted by highlighting that there is no evidence that pro-life vigils near abortion facilities in Ireland are dangerous or unlawful.
In an August 4 statement, Megan Ní Scealláin of the Life Institute said: “Garda Commissioner Drew Harris wrote to the Minister for Health [Stephen Donnelly] to clearly state that there was ‘no evidence’ to suggest that pro-life protests at any centers were abusive or threatening. He confirmed that the vigils were, in fact, peaceful and lawful”.
“Of course, Stephen Donnelly knows this, and he is choosing to ignore the advice of Gardai to do the bidding of campaign groups and to punch down at pro-life activists who he knows are breaking no laws”, she said.
“In fact, the Garda Commissioner also stated that if any laws were to be broken existing laws were sufficient to deal with that”.
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People should start praying for these places and people on their online media accounts. Can’t stop that.
No freedom of speech or freedom of religion in these places. However, as long as you’re for Baal and Moloch, you’re protected.
These buffer zones will be ‘super-crime’ areas, where people can be arrested for crimes they haven’t committed.
Is Stephen Donnelly a Soros puppet?
Is Ireland still “officially” Roman Catholic, or did the disestablish at some point and I missed it?
Holy Ireland is lost..and I’m glad my parents aren’t here to see it
They ate the globalist soup.
Sadly, Dublin is as Irish as London is English these days.
Ireland has always had freedom of religion since independence and the “special relationship” with the Roman Church was ended by law in the 1970s.
This is what happens when you abandon the foundation of your own civilization.
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