CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- An Irish pro-life group has reiterated its opposition to proposed new regulations or laws on abortion, warning that these would effectively allow \u201cabortion on demand.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\u201cAll of the options, basically, allow abortion in one way or other,\u201d Ide Nic Athuna, a spokeswoman for the Irish pro-life group Youth Defence, told CNA Nov. 28.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThese allow for the deliberate abortion procedure, which is the intentional killing of an unborn child. So that\u2019s what we\u2019re faced with now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tIn December 2010 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Ireland needed to clarify the legal status of abortion, in line with a 1992 Irish Supreme Court decision that held it is permissible to save the life of a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n
\tThe Irish Minister for Health James Reilly on Nov. 27 brought before the Irish Cabinet several options to implement the court ruling for \u201clawful termination of pregnancy.\u201d The list of possible ways to change the current situation includes non-statutory guidelines, statutory guidelines, legislation alone or legislation with regulations.<\/p>\n
\tAlan Shatter, the Irish Minister for Justice, argued that Irish abortion law has \u201cdeeply dysfunctional and obtuse legal architecture badly in need of reform,\u201d according to the Irish Times. He said the government is \u201cnot considering in any shape or form abortion on demand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tBut Nic Athuna asserted that if the Irish Supreme Court decision is implemented it \u201cwill basically lead to abortion on demand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tShe told CNA that the decision allows abortion when a pregnant woman threatens suicide.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThere is absolutely no way to disprove that somebody is suicidal and therefore \u2026 not entitled to abortion,\u201d she said. \u201cMany senior psychiatrists have said in the last few days that putting that into law will allow widespread abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cAbortion has never been considered a treatment or a cure for suicidal ideation. But now they\u2019re trying to put that into law,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n
\tNic Athuna said pro-life advocates are also concerned that backers of abortion legalization are trying to reclassify treatments that are presently performed in Irish hospitals as abortions. Those procedures include treatments for ectopic pregnancy, preeclampsia, or cancer in cases where a woman is pregnant.
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\n\t\u201cHospital treatments are what they are. But they are not abortions,\u201d she said, warning that advocates intend to reclassify these treatments to make abortions appear acceptable and to legalize \u201cdeliberate and intentional abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tEfforts to develop abortion regulations and laws have been underway since January 2012.<\/p>\n
\tHowever, the Oct. 28 death of Savita Halappanavar in an Irish hospital has added to the controversy.<\/p>\n
\tThe woman was 17 weeks pregnant when she went to a Galway hospital Oct. 20 with severe back pain. Doctors determined she was miscarrying, at which point she asked for an abortion.<\/p>\n
\tMedical staff would not perform an abortion as long as her child had a heartbeat. The child died Oct. 24 and its body was removed.<\/p>\n
\tHowever, Halappanavar developed an infection. Her heart, kidneys and liver stopped working Oct. 27 and she died the next day from blood poisoning.<\/p>\n
\tHalappanavar\u2019s family and abortion advocates contend that an abortion would have saved her life. An independent inquiry is investigating.<\/p>\n
\tNic Athuna said after the woman\u2019s death \u201cabsolutely every media outlet has been screaming for legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe pro-abortion lobby has been given a huge platform,\u201d she added. The controversy has \u201csoftened\u201d the Irish people to the idea of abortion legislation because of the repeated insistence that legalized abortion would have saved the woman\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cNobody can say for certain,\u201d she said. \u201cNobody knows yet exactly why that baby died.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tHowever, Nic Athuna said the debate has improved in recent days.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cGradually, people have been calming down,\u201d she said, charging that abortion advocates \u201ccreated absolute hysteria.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWe\u2019re just trying to roll back that propaganda,\u201d she said, accusing groups like the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Family Planning Association of using these cases \u201cto further their own agenda in an effort to get the public on their side and get the government to do their will.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe average Joe on the street eventually does get through the hype and does see the truth,\u201d Nic Athuna said. \u201cHopefully we can overcome that again in time before the government does try to force legislation on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tShe said the government should recognize \u201cthe will of the people, which have always been against abortion in three separate referenda.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tIrish medical practice, she said, has made the country \u201cone of the safest places in the world for a woman to have a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tIreland \u201cprotects and gives dignity and respect to both women and children in our hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n
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