Posted on 12/20/2018 5:19:14 PM PST by Olog-hai
President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins has signed the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill into law, making abortion services legal in Ireland.
The new legislation passed through all stages of the Oireachtas this month, completing its passage in the Seanad.
The Act allows for terminations of pregnancy up to 12 weeks. It also provides for terminations where there is a risk to the life or a serious risk to the health of the pregnant woman.
Women who have been given a diagnosis of fatal fetal abnormalities will now be able to legally avail of early termination of pregnancy in the hospital they are being treated in. […]
Thanking campaigners who had “fought for 35 years to change a nation, to change hearts and minds”, Health Minister Simon Harris called the passing of the bill though the Oireachtas as a “genuinely historic moment”.
“I want to thank the minority who fought the battle in here when it was convenient for the majority to ignore,” he added. …
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Congratulations. Now they can kill their own children. How can so many people think that’s okay?
And Ireland goes Post-Christian.
with all their reverting to the Irish language and the ancient Irish ways, surely there was something in their past laws that protected their unborn offspring...there weren’t that many Irishmen being born or surviving childhood in those days ...they needed every one...
There was; it was called the Eighth Amendment, and it just got repealed by referendum this year back in May.
When a society kills its unborn, the society will die. Those running the society will have to import people.
Yes but I mean way back to the ‘culture’ theyre dredging up now so that they can live like the ancient Irish bog jumpers errr tribes...
:)
BTW, all I hear on Irish media over there is how the Irish language is allegedly “dying”. Guess their efforts aren’t producing any fruit.
Ireland continues its headlong rush from most conservative country in Europe to its most liberal.
For the Irish comes the terrible swift sword. And not a minute too soon.
Everywhere you go there people are speaking Gaelic to each other. You wouldn't know it is dying.
Gaelic is used for the Scottish form of the language.
And no, not even when I lived there was anyone speaking the language. Certainly nobody does now, except in the Gaeltacht areas and even that’s under threat, or on dedicated Irish-language stations such as RTE Raidio na Gaeltachta.
Well, plenty of "new Irish" coming in from Somalia and Afghanistan.
What's the problem?
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