Every human being is entitled to basic fundamental right to life
Dear Editor,
It now appears that the Irish people will shortly be asked to vote on a government proposal to remove the constitutional protection for the unborn as presently enshrined in the 8th Amendment to Bunreacht na hEireann.
We will be asked to repeal the right to life of unborn babies as recognised by the 8th Amendment.
The proposal of the Oireachtas Committee suggests legalising abortion without restriction until the baby is twelve weeks gestation, and, unthinkably, right up to birth on vague health grounds.
This is an extreme proposal and does not enjoy the support of the majority of Irish people, who, most polls have shown, are opposed to abortion on demand.
The Oireachtas Committee, judging by its composition, was the nearest thing one would get to a packed jury, with one agenda only, to provide cover for certain ministers and in particular for the former Taoiseach, who obviously gave an undertaking for a referendum to certain independents in return for their support in his re-election as Taoiseach.
One prominent member of the committee was asked by a prolife speaker on a recent radio programme if she favoured killing unborn babies, she shied away from giving an answer, replying that it was a very unfair question.
This is typical of those who support abortion, they will never answer the hard questions.
The majority of the ‘experts’ called to give evidence to the committee were either people associated with the abortion industry abroad or were well known for their opposition to the 8th Amendment at home.
A few individual politicians have gone on solo runs supporting the extreme proposals of the committee, contrary to the position of their party membership.
Abortion, the deliberate killing of the unborn, is the biggest human killer in the modern world.
In the United States alone 60 million babies have been killed by abortion in the forty years since the US Supreme Court legalised abortion in Roe v Wade.
Ninety per cent of Down Syndrome babies are aborted at present in England.
The deliberate killing of a human being in the womb is always wrong and no parliament, electorate or court can make right something that is fundamentally wrong.
Abortion is not a medical treatment but is the direct and intentional destruction of an unborn baby.
Every human being is entitled to the basic fundamental right to life and to be born, whether that life can be measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days or years.
Yours sincerely.
Michael Donnellan. Ballymote, Co.Sligo.