‘This is not about saving lives but ending them’
SILE Quinlan from Glencar gives her reasons on behalf of the Prolife Campaign why she is voting NO in the Eighth Amendment Referendum.
Before we vote in the referendum on May 25 th, we need to be fully aware of the facts.
This is not a referendum about limited numbers or hard cases.
It is a referendum about abortion-on-demand.
Government ministers constantly try to sidestep the reality of their own proposals, but they know deep down that this proposal is one for abortion-on-demand.
How unrestricted is the Government’s abortion proposal? It’s almost identical to the current law in Britain.
There are around 200,000 abortions in Britain every year, almost every single one of which is an abortion of a perfectly healthy child of a perfectly healthy mother.
That’s one baby aborted for every four who are born.
That’s what a Yes vote in this referendum is opening the door to: unlimited abortion access throughout the first three months of the baby’s life.
No abortion will be refused in the first 12 weeks, for any reason, at all.
It’s actually worse than that. Under the Government’s proposal, babies will be aborted up to 24 weeks and even up to birth on “mental health” grounds.
What does “mental health” mean in law?
The Government’s proposals don’t say – it can mean pretty much anything.
In England 98% of abortions are on “mental health” grounds. It is completely unrestricted.
Government ministers are trying to spin their own proposed abortion law.
They are trying to say that it won’t allow abortion up to birth when a baby is perfectly capable of surviving outside the womb.
But their law clearly says that “terminations” are possible in certain cases without gestational limits.
How does their own law define “terminations”?
Like this, “a medical procedure intended to end the life of the foetus.”
Think about this. A foetus is another name for a baby.
A baby five minutes from being born can be aborted if this referendum passes.
How is this compassionate? How is it compassionate to have no restrictions on aborting healthy babies of healthy mothers?
How could anyone seriously call that “healthcare”?
This is not about saving lives, it is about ending them.
In terms of real healthcare, Ireland is one of the top six safest countries in the world for women to give birth in.
We are safer than almost every country with unrestricted abortion laws, including Britain, France, the USA and the Netherlands: all countries with abortion-on-demand.
We don’t need to introduce abortion to protect women when we are providing a much better standard of care to expectant mothers than countries which have long since decided to embrace abortion without limits.
The Government’s proposals will afford no protection whatsoever to disabled babies in the womb.
In England, 90% of babies with Down Syndrome are abort- ed, with such babies being killed through the use of lethal injections into their hearts.
There is nothing caring about this, but with the Eighth Amendment gone, there will be nothing to stop our politicians from introducing laws which will allow this to happen here.
That’s what we’re being asked to support, and I can’t vote for it in good conscience.
I’m voting No.