Posted on 05/27/2018 2:48:12 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Repeal of the Eighth Amendment “is not compassionate. It is cruel. It gives licence for murder,” Dr Ali Selim of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Dublin’s Clonskeagh has said. Abortion without restriction up to 12 weeks was “abortion for no reason,” he said.
“Bearing in mind their difficult circumstances, the Eighth Amendment protects pregnant women against taking a hasty decision,” he said. “ The right decision is the decision that one takes when one is not under pressure of any type. That said the women’s social, psychological and economic concerns during pregnancy should be addressed urgently,” he said.
“Terms have been hijacked,” he said. “The pro-abortion campaign argues that deciding to continue or to end a pregnancy is a personal and a private decision” and “should be taken in the context of an individual’s unique life circumstances,” he said.
“On the contrary, abortion can never be deemed a personal or a private decision since it has serious societal repercussions. This country, like many other parts of Europe, is in need of young generations; otherwise, we will be an old nation,” he said.
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“Numerous studies have already concluded that the EU’s population is likely to shrink in the coming decades because of prolonged periods of relatively low fertility rates. This falling number of children and young people in the total population could result in labour market shortages.
How can it be progressive when it is going to affect and transform the shape and the structure of our society and be a fundamental factor in creating serious economic issues?
“Legislation for abortion will make it even worse. This situation will affect sustainable economic growth and social life models such as pensions and healthcare services,” he said.
Claims that repeal of the Eighth Amendment would be “progressive and compassionate” were “false”, he said.
“How can it be progressive when it is going to affect and transform the shape and the structure of our society and be a fundamental factor in creating serious economic issues? It will contribute to marking a transition towards a much older population structure, a development that is already apparent in several EU member States.
“As a greater proportion of generation reaches retirement, those of working age will have to carry the burden to provide for the social expenditure required for a range of related services by the ageing population,” he said.
In cases of rape “the compassionate and progressive approach is to legislate for minimising this crisis,” he said. “No one shall kill the innocent,” he said.
This is my position too. and the time a woman is not under pressure is before she is pregnant, not while she is pregnant.
My old neighbor on Georgia Avenue used to say, "Chooz before you skruze."
The clans, you see.
But they're waning, falling to the Uniculture. EU culture.
Euthanationalism...
Mind blown that it is a MUSLIM leader who said this. The UK, Ireland, France, Germany. Totally lost.
You know it’s bad when the muslims are making the most sense.
Very prominently, the Savita Halappanavar media-generated victim narrrative about the lady who supposedly died because a Catholic hospital wouldn't give her an abortion, except she died due to a misdiagnosed septicemia that had nothing to do with her pregnancy.
Remember this one? I just remembered that Free Republic covered it when it happened.
Lies. And murder. They always go together.
Oy. OOr yaba yay, as they say.
Good point. I remember that.
For Ireland, the die is cast.
Irish women will give up on reproduction, at least in numbers sufficient to sustain their culture. The Muslim women will have five babies, the animists from Nigeria and West Africa will have seven.
It will all be over quite soon.
As Mark Steyn says, “it’s not a question of values. It’s a math problem”
The replacement for European Christianity is not secular humanism, a dead faith with nothing to sustain a people.
The replacement for Christianity is Islam.
But Ireland is so small, and it's "New Irish" from Syria and Nigeria so fertile, that "they" won't be in charge in 20-30 years.
I looked up some stats on Donegal. In 2012, that area had the lowest birthrate in Ireland. On the other hand, in 2017, there were 30 babies born during one 5-month period in a town of 550 residents.
It’s possible that Donegal has a higher percentage of older residents relative to other areas. An age-distribution chart for Ireland on Wikipedia showed a concentration of population between age 15 and age 30, the prime demographic for poor sexual choices as well as for “tolerance and inclusion.”
Yes, really.
Check out Ireland 2040.
They need taxpayers to pay the rates and support the social programs, Irish women ALREADY are not replacing the Irish, now, those numbers will crater.
They are PLANNING on 8 million immigrants for 2040. They will get more, much more.
To make this work, they will be required to be more tolerant and inclusive of everything except white Irish babies.
But it is before she is pregnant, or as they say over there before she falls pregnant, that she is under maximum competitive pressure to bond with a successful and attractive man, and in the presence of both birth control/abortion and widespread rejection of monogamy, the result is 15%-20% of the men with harems of various sizes as girls put out in the vain hope of becoming "the one".
It is this pressure that causes these child murders.
It also causes a large, expanding pool of men with no access to a woman and no hope therefore of a family, and THEIR murderous rage is in the news every single day.
All true.
It makes me hurt all over.
Most of the immigrants in Ireland are from Poland and other Central European areas, including the Baltics and former Yugoslavia. “Asians” are about 2%, and surely include some Chinese as well as what we call Pakistanis and North Indians.
And, as the Orthodox Celts have proved, Serbs can rock The Rocky Road to Dublin
Axios!
Slavs in the United States often have large families, unlike in their homelands. I wonder if that’s the case in Ireland, as well.
The only family in our subdivision as large as ours is the Ukrainian Evangelicals around the corner, who also had 10, plus grandparents. They bought two houses on adjacent lots! Older than us, so more of the children have moved out.
Cool, although I felt a little woozy when the gentleman did a buck-and-wing on the cliff edge.
Crazy Serbs!
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