Pope urges pharmacists to reject abortion pill

At a meeting of Catholic pharmasists the Pope has urged that the abortion pill should be rejected in pharmacys where the practitioner is a Catholic and that pharmacists should act on concientious grounds.

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for the whole story from Reuters.

Pro Life Victory At Stormont!

On Monday 22nd October a motion was passed in Stormont rejecting the Draft Guidelines on abortion produced by the Department of Health. These guidelines, according to legal experts, would have had the effect of greatly liberalizing the abortion law in the North of Ireland by misinterpreting the law.

This blog has kept an eye of the course of events following the introduction of the Dtaft Guidelines. The fact that a self confessed abortion nurse was instrumental in the drafting of the guidence and that there were many legal difficulties inherant within the document produced by the DHSSPS have been covered by various articles here.

It is with delight then that the news is announced that this pernicious attempt to liberalise the law by the back door was scuppered by the Assembly members at Stormont.

By all accounts the speaches in favour of the Unborn Child were rousing and did the heart good to hear, coming from the mouths of politicians and at the highest level. It is reported that whilst the DUP and the SDLP are to be commended for their staunch opposition to the guidelines, Sinn Fein were pretty weak, and it was not clear to those in the gallery whether the handfull of members who actually attended the debate voted or abstained.

Meanwhile a last minute attempt was made by the Unionist Party to undermine the motion by tableing an ammended, watered down, motion. Seemingly intended to save the skin of the Health Minister, Mr McGimpsey of the UUP. This ammendement was rejected by the house and the motion was passed to the great delight of the Pro Life parties and those ion the public gallery, who had been roused by the speeches and left Stormont jubillant. 

Granted there were apparently a few dour faces amongst the members of the fpaNI who attended, years of hard double talk and coniving come to nothing, again.

Diary Of An Unborn Child

I found this piece from The Remnant. It is truly moving read it:

Click here for Diary of an Unborn Child.

Latest News On Stormont Pro Life Vote From Precious Life

Assembly abortion vote on Monday 22nd

October

Northern Ireland’s leading pro-life group Precious Life say they are confident that the Northern Ireland Assembly will pass a motion opposing abortion which is to be debated on Monday 22nd October at 1.00pm. Precious Life were instrumental in getting the motion tabled after they held a series of meetings with Assembly members in the summer. On the morning of the debate, the pro-life group will also present 100,000 petitions against abortion to First Minister Rev. Ian Paisley.

The Assembly motion is in opposition to draft guidelines on abortion which were issued by the Department of Health in January. Precious Life held a series of meeting throughout the summer with MPs and Assembly Members, warning them that guidelines would change how the law against abortion is interpreted and effectively legalise abortion in Northern Ireland ‘through the back door.’ In September, the DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson and Iris Robinson tabled a motion in the Assembly, opposing the Department of Health guidelines.

Director of Precious Life Bernadette Smyth said, “We are confident that the majority of our Assembly members will vote in support of the motion on Monday. Together with our 100,000 petitions, the passing of this motion will send out the clear message that the people of Northern Ireland demand protection for our unborn babies and their mothers from abortion.”

Slain pregnant woman refused to have abortion

In Canada a young girl was brutally beaten to death by the father of her unborn child and his friend for refusing to have an abortion.

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In this shocking case, where the defendants are also juvenilles, the charges could not include a count for the dead unborn child, as in Canada the law does not recognise the unborn at all as a living being.

If this had happened here, in Ireland or even in the UK, there would have been charges proffered for the death of the child under the law.

This is what happens when you decriminalise abortion. Some people think its a free for all.

Also, interesting research from America has shown that in states where abortion is allowed there is an increase in the instances of crime AGAINST pregnant women. Usually by irate men who wanted the mother of ther child to abort.

Therefore when you ignore the humanity of the child in utero, you decrease the humanity of the mother. Think about it. Its called human nature. 

Abortion Shown On British TV Programme

In Dispatches tonight gruelling images of abortions and aborted infants were shown for possibly the first time ever on a British channel.

This is 40 years after the liberal 1967 Abortion Act was introduced and 6 million dead babies later.

If people are not totally horrified by what they saw then nothing can ever soften their hearts. Knowing that all abortions end in the death of a child I personally could not watch most of the footage, however this is an operation which is going on every day in British hospitals and people should know that this is the reality, dead children.

What further struck me was how angry the pro abortionists were on the programme. Anne Freudi for instance, her eyes were practically rolling in her head. They could hardly speak when the reality was shifted from the womens rights issue to the practicality that claimants of this “right” do so at the expense of others lives. When it was put to the head of Marie Stopes that women are being denied this vital information she flatly denied that they required it, stating that women already knew exactly what they were doing when they went for an abortion.

Well, the young Irish girl in the recent D case who had her baby aborted in England doesn’t actually think she had an “abortion” at all, just that she had an “induced labour”. Of course all abortions at late stage are induced labours, knowing full well that the child cannot survive outside the womb. The child is then left to die.

The programme did not deal with the issue of abortions to full term on disabled babies. I wondered why this was left out? I daresay that most people really could not face this particular reality, full term abortions, but it does happen for as little as a hair lip as the famous Jepsom case highlighted.

As one doctor stated the unborn are their own best advocates. The programme was hardly made from a pro life point of view, really focusing on the foetal pain issue, however seeing the images of the unborn in the womb, the callous calm of the abortionist and the wretched bodies of the dead infants must surely make anyone tremble. The thought that a society which considers itself sane and civilised could carry on like this is incredible.

It is because of the terrible reality of abortion that pro life advocates have been showing these pictures for years now. Finally the public at large have been allowed to see what their society has become and what is happening in the name of “rights” and “medicine”.

In the North of Ireland soon, there will be a pro life motion debated before our parliament at Stormont. This motion will seek the assembly members to reject the recently drafted Abortion Guidelines which the Department of Health will seek to issue, and which pro life advocates and lawyers have claimed are a shameless attempt to liberalise the law in the North of Ireland.

Hopefully our MLA’s will have seen Dispatches tonight and those who might have wondered which way to vote will have made their minds up.

In the North of Ireland we have the lowest rate of abortion in the world, 3.6 per 1000 women. The next lowest is the Republic at 6.9 (these figures are bases on population of women between 15 and 44 and the number of abortions performed on women giving Irish addresses in UK clinics. The pro life lobby will say that even these statistics are an exageration).

There are NO maternal deaths recorded as a result of inability to access abortion. There is NO known condition which requires the direct abortion of a child to save a mothers life. There are NO instances recorded of unsafe abortions. There have been NO prosecutions, North or South of the Irish border, for illegal abortions since the Abortion Act was introduced in the UK. Compare this with England where there have been at least 69 prosecutions in the same time for illegal abortion, not including counts of Child Destruction which have also been prosecuted.

When God made us he did not intend that we should ever envisage the murder of our own children in utero. I don’t know what will become of England for what she has done to her children, but in Ireland we can surely still resist the terrible tide of abortion.

Pray For Malta. Women To Unite Against Abortion Ship. Voice Your Pro Life View Today!

From The Malta Independant;

“ Gift of Life and the pro-life movement are calling on all Maltese, in particular, Maltese women, to come together in a show of unity against abortion, to protest peacefully and silently outside the Castille Hotel in Valletta tomorrow at 8.30pm.”

Gomperts and her Abortion Ship are currently attacking the children and women of Malta, a pro life country which rejects the international abortion trade. Gomperts has been continuing her tirade against babies over the past few years calling her attempts “women on the waves”.

Women from pro life countries are supposed to get on board the ship to have their babies aborted. If we, pro life countries, were to get a ship and sail it to the shore of Holland and recite the Ten Commandments you can be sure we would be in breach of some UN rule or other, but pirates like Gomperts et al……………..  no problem.

Pro Life messages from around the world are being sent to the Hotel Castille to be given to the people gathering at the front of the hotel at 8pm on the 11th of October. This should give them encouragement and support as they face this foriegn attack on their pro life Catholic culture.

The contact details are:

Hotel Castille,
Castille Square,
Valetta,
MALTA
Telephone: 2124 3677/8,    2122 0173
Fax: 2124 3679

And Still They Continue To Threaten Our Children.

Marie Stopes and her pals are meeting in London this autumn to announce new plans to make the UK even more child unfriendly.

Of course, in the agenda will be a call to export the abortion industry to the North of Ireland, where abortion is still governed by the offences of Child Destruction offence and Illegal Abortion.

From The Guardian article (sorry) announcing the event we read:

“They also want an end to the restriction that only doctors can perform abortions, arguing that non-surgical procedures including medical abortion via the abortion pill could be carried out by trained nurses. Pro-choice campaigners also want abortion rights extended to Northern Ireland.”

Hopefully their broomsticks will run out of venom before they land on Erins green shores, if not I suppose we will just have to defend our children………again.

Norths Health Minister Shocked By Allegations of “Glorified Euthanasia”.

Michael Hanratty is a 76 year old Irish farmer who, after a farming accident which resulted in a head injury, was deemed “too old” by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland to recieve specialist brain injury treatment. Despite the fact that this man has worked all his life, was still working at 76, reared a family and was a much loved father and husband, it seemed he just didn’t cut the mustard when it came to pleasing the health bosses.

This story broke this week and shocked the nation. We heard that the Department of Health had a policy regarding over 65 year olds and brain injury, what that policy boiiled down to was that if you were over 65 with this sort of injury you basically didn’t get treated. Not even if you offered to pay yourself.

After the headline news, the Health Minister Mr McGimpsey, who, worryingly, claimed not to know that this policy existed, stated ”if there is no serious rationale for it (the policy) I will overturn it”. He went on to state that he was “shocked” when he read the headline news and heard the outrage on the local radio show.

Mr Hanratty’s daughter, Mrs Johnston, fought to get the matter dealt with, so horrified was she that her father was to be left in a general ward without even a specialist assessment. Mrs Johnson has called the policy, “Glorified euthanasia”.

It has taken a month for this matter to come to light. So much could have gone wrong in a month. This is an issue which affects all of us. Are we going to be on the wrong end of a “policy” some day and denied essential treatment? The fact that the Hanrattys were not even allowed to pay for treatment lends itelf to a very sinister interpretation of this policy. I would say Mrs Johnson did not use the word “euthenasia” without cause.

In light of this and all the other scandals to have swamped the Health Service in the North recently, isn’t it about time our Department of Health started to answer to the poeple of this country who still have some moral fibre, and stop taking its lead from England, where, lets face it, they now think that creating a “half rabbit /half human embryo” is normal?

Does Sinn Fein Not Accept That The Irish Constitution Extends To The Irish Citizens Of The North?

Sinn Fein, in its standard answer to the pro life campaign to request politicians in the North to vote in favour of the upcoming pro life motion, writes to its constituents:

“Sinn Fein is opposed to the attitudes and forces in society which pressurise (sic) women to have abortions, and criminalize those who make this decision.In cases of rape, incest or sexual abuse, or where a woman’s life and health are at risk or in grave danger, we accept that the final decision must rest with the woman”

A strange comment for an all Ireland party whose countries constitution states:

Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1983.

		SCHEDULE
		PART I
		3° Admhaíonn an Stát ceart na mbeo gan breith chun a mbeatha agus, ag féachaint go cuí do chomhcheart na máthar chun a beatha, ráthaíonn sé gan cur isteach lena dhlíthe ar an gceart sin agus ráthaíonn fós an ceart sin a chosaint is a shuíomh lena dhlíthe sa mhéid gur féidir é.
		PART II
		3° 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.

Although Sinn Fein, state they are also “not in favour of abortion” and oppose the 1967 British Abortion Act, their own definition of when an abortion is justified knocks the British Act into a cocked hat. They do not define any time limit, ultimately accepting “that the final decision rests with the woman”, ie abortion on demand.

This from the “Catholic” half of the Protestant and Catholic duo at Stormont? Dazed and confused? You bet………………….. 

Thousands of Concerned Northern Irish Citizens Join “Not In My Name Campaign”

Precious Life, a leading pro life group based in the North of Ireland, has launched a campaign to stop abortion guidelines, drafted by the Department of Health, from becoming a reality.

Already 30,000 postcards have been sent out to people accross the north, in turn these are being signed and forwarded on to Stormont politicians as a way of encouraging them to vote in favour of a Pro Life motion which is pending.

Mr Jeffrey Donaldson and Mrs Iris Robinson co-signed the tabled motion which could come before parliament at any time now. These politicians are well known for their pro life stance, as are many of the Stormont Assembly. Precious Life will be banking on the exposure they have attained regarding the proposed guidelines to defeat the pro abortion lobbies latest move. The Department of Health allegedly tried to keep their plans quite, and only put the Draft Abortion Guidelines out for “confidential” review by interested parties. Precious Life went public with the news of the guidelines earlier on in the year, gaining 50,000 signatures in the initail stages of their campaign, wich were presented to the Department.

The latest leg of the Not In My Name” campaign has seen the pro life post cards “flying in” to the offices of local politicians, accoring to one inside source.

To contact Precious Life for postcards and information you can call 02890278484 and ensure that your voice is heard.