No demand for repeal
While going door to door with 19,500 leaflets in Sligo town and county since last September, Sligo For Life members found there was little or no demand for a referendum to repeal or amend the eight amendment and definitely no wish for widespread abortion in Ireland.
Opinion polls also relfect this.
Sligo For Life is shocked with the outcome from the Citizens Assembly. There was no transparency on how the citizen’s assembly was set up or how the 99 citizens were selcted.
There were no representatives from ten counties including Sligo and Leitrim.
We are confident that the vast majority of people in Sligo will also vote to protect the eight amendment.
Science agrees that life begins at conception. A new human being is set forth from this point with their full DNA and continues to develop and and grow and age until some point where that life ceases.
Science also has proven that at 18 days his/ her heart beats and the nervous system is laid by five weeks. At six weeks the skeleton is established and at eight weeks he/ she is sensitive to light/ pain. The majority of abortions occur before 12 weeks.
Worldwide, tens of millions of babies are killed by abortion each year. In England and Wales alone, it is estaimated that 200,000 babies are aborted each year. That is 20% of all babies have their lives ended by abortion. ( Statistics from the British Department of Health).
In the UK, abortion is allowed up to birth where the baby is deemed to have a disability.
Eight out of ten women made pregnant through rape do not seek an abortion in Ireland ( Rape Crisis Network Ireland 2010 National Rape Crisis Statistics and Annual Report).
An excerpt from the Dublin declaration on maternal health care in 2013 signed by over 1,000 medical professionals testified that “as experienced practitioners and researchers in obstetrics and gynaecology they affirmed that direct abortion, the purposeful destruction of the unborn child is never medically necessary to save the life of the woman.”
In Ireland, studies show that due to the protection afforded by the eight amendment, it is estimated that 250,000 people are alive today.
Ireland’s record on protecting mothers lives in pregnancy and childbirth is one of the best in the world. In 2015, Ireland was ranked join 6th out of 183 countries.
In 2009 and since, the thinking has been to achieve economic sustainability. World population must be reduced by approximately 500 million people. The current population is 7.5 billion as of May 2017. Women and babies are major victims of this population control and 100 million women are missing due to sex selectiion abortion.
We are continually being bombarded with the message that our focus in Ireland is narrow minded but 76% of people have stated they are Catholic and as Christians we are obliged to uphold the culture of life from the moment of conception to natural death.
We in Sligo For Life are committed to protecting both mother and child, by upholding the eight amendment which has succeeded in protecting both since 1983.
Abortion is not a compasssionate answer in any situation, both mother and child deserve better.