When I read a
news item last week, stating that the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in
Dublin had decided it would comply with the new Irish abortion law (about
which I blogged on July 17), my heart sank. How could it do this? Why could
the hospital not have refused, thus giving a direct challenge to the Irish
government? If the worst came to the worst and the government sacked the
hospital’s personnel en masse, would that not be the better outcome and send
out a braver and more principled signal to other hospitals in the country which
might be looking for firm leadership?
The new law states that an abortion can be carried out in
the Republic throughout the nine months of pregnancy where the life of the
mother is at risk – including if she threatens suicide. As everyone knows who
has studied the result of laws like this – seemingly humanitarian but in fact the
opposite – it will open the way to abortion on demand.
Post above from and continued here: Catholic Herald - Irish hospital should be challenging new abortion law, instead of meekly caving in to the government
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