1,000 DOCTORS LEND SUPPORT TO REPEAL 8TH
Medics say they’re in ‘constitutional straitjacket’
MORE than 1,000 doctors have signed a public declaration in support of repealing the Eighth Amendment.
Medics across the country attended the National Doctors Together For Yes summit in Dublin yesterday.
At the event TFY spokesman Dr Mark Murphy said: “Doctors across Ireland want change. We want repeal.
“We are here today to say the Eighth Amendment isn’t working – it puts doctors in a constitutional straitjacket which holds us back from providing proper care to our patients.
“Today Doctors Together For Yes are revealing a public declaration by over 1,000 doctors who want change the law to allow us to provide compassionate care to our patients.
“We are GPS, we are psychiatrists, we are obstetricians, we are medical students. We are Together For Yes.
“We want change. Nothing at all will change unless we remove the Eighth Amendment.”
Master of the National Maternity Hospital Dr Rhona Mahony added: “Today in Ireland we now have backstreet abortion.
“Thousands of women access unknown tablets over the internet and take then completely unsupervised without the ancillary care that should be available to them.
“We need to end back- street abortion.” Obstetrician and gynaecologist Professor Louise Kenny, a specialist in the management of high-risk pregnancy, said in her 25 years of practice she had witnessed the harms of the Eighth Amendment.
She added: “As an obstetrician, I never met a woman who wanted a termination, but I’ve met many women who desperately needed one.”
Meanwhile, the Loveboth campaign held a Stand Up for Life rally in Dublin’s Merrion Square
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Spokeswoman Cora Sherlock said: “The purpose of today’s event is to remind people that there are just two weeks to go until we go to the polls for abortion on demand.”