Six facts you need to know about Ireland’s upcoming abortion vote
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The 8th Amendment to the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland
grants explicit protection to pre-born babies in the womb, which is why
abortion activists need to repeal it in order to implement
state-sanctioned feticide. The Amendment reads: “The State acknowledges
the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right
to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as
practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.”
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If the 8th Amendment is repealed, the Irish government plans to
implement an extremist abortion agenda that includes abortion on demand
up until 12 weeks of pregnancy, and abortion for the vague reason of
“health,” which is intentionally ambiguous to allow virtually all
abortions, up until six months or even birth. The politicians and
abortion activists are trying to conceal this fact during the runup to
the referendum because most of the Irish people do not support abortion
on demand. Health Minister Simon Harris has even said that the
government will fund abortions should the right to life be repealed.
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Abortion activists are claiming that repeal is necessary to “save
women’s lives,” with variations on that theme featured prominently on
most of their placards. In fact, precisely the opposite is true – even
according to the very pro-abortion United Nations, which has noted that
Ireland is one of the safest places in the world to give birth.
Ireland’s Maternal Mortality Rate (which analyzes how many women die
during or after pregnancy) is one of the lowest in the world. This fact
has enraged abortion activists for decades, as it succinctly exposes the
lie of abortion as “healthcare” and proves that abortion is not
necessary for the health of the mother.
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Irish doctors have confirmed time and again that abortion does not
need to be legal for them to treat women. Dr. John Monaghan, a
consultant obstetrician for over thirty years, reported that, “In my
career, I delivered almost 5,000 babies. On not one occasion was I
prevented in acting to protect a woman’s life because of the 8th
Amendment.” Many GPs strongly disapprove of abortion – 70 percent of
them said they wouldn’t provide the abortion pill. At a public hearing
in 2013, Irish physicians confirmed that not a single Irish woman had
died because of the 8th Amendment.
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Abortion activists in Ireland are lying in order to achieve repeal,
just as abortion activists lied in their quest to get abortion legalized
in the United States and elsewhere. For example, take the case of
Savita Halappanavar, who died in 2012 after miscarrying her child at 17
weeks pregnant. The media reported that she had died because she was
refused an abortion, a lie that abortion activists are featuring
prominently in their Repeal campaign. The fact is that all three
official investigations into Hallappanavar’s death found that she did
not die from being refused an abortion – a fact that doctors confirmed.
Rather, she died from sepsis (blood poisoning), and medical
professionals apparently missed at least 13 separate opportunities to
save her life.
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At the moment, Ireland has an exceptionally low abortion rate. In
Britain, one in five babies are killed by abortion, including 90 percent
of those diagnosed with Down Syndrome (this is comparable to other
Western countries, as well). Ireland, on the other hand, has an abortion
rate of only one in 19 babies – around 3,500 women travel from Ireland
to England each year for abortions. This number has been declining for
16 years, and has now dropped by 50 percent – a drop that began prior to
the availability of abortion pills via the Internet. According to the
Save the 8th Campaign, the 8th Amendment saves the lives of up to 30
Irish babies every year.
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