Just weeks after a lopsided, groundbreaking vote struck
down Ireland’s constitutional ban on legal abortion, the country’s
Taoiseach signaled the broader moral and legal implications of this sea
change in a once deeply Catholic nation.
“It will not … be possible for publicly funded hospitals, no matter who their patron or owner is,” Leo Varadkar told the Dáil,
“to opt out of providing these necessary services which will be legal
in this state once this legislation is passed by the Dáil [the lower
house of the Irish legislature] and Seanad [senate].”
Britain’s Catholic Herald reported today that two large hospitals in
Dublin are owned by religious orders: the Sisters of Charity’s St
Vincent’s Healthcare Group and the Sisters of Mary’s Mater Hospital.
Both, along with other Catholic medical institutions, will soon confront
the full reality of abortion on demand.
In a June 14 column for National Review entitled,
“In Ireland, What’s Legal Is Now Mandatory,” Michael Brendan Doughterty
noted that NRO had “predicted in its editorial on the referendum that
victory for Repeal would be swiftly followed by attempts to coerce
Catholic institutions to provide abortion. Now Varadkar has promised as
much.”
At present, the Irish government is preparing legislation to allow
abortion on demand for up to 12 weeks of pregnancy — and in special
cases, for up to 24 weeks.
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Remember how all this pro-abort people said that the "rights of religious institutions and conscience would be respected?" As usual, that was a lie. They never had any intention of respecting that.
ReplyDelete"these necessary services" .... I don't know what to say.
ReplyDeleteEugenics can now proceed unimpeded in Ireland. No more humane than turning a gas valve.