'We must act' - Micheál Martin in favour of repealing Eighth Amendment
“Following a long period of reflection and assessment of evidence before the Oireachtas Committee, I believe that we should remove the Eighth amendment from Bunreacht na hÉireann and I will vote accordingly.”
Last night, a number of politicians made an argument to vote in favour of the repealing the Eighth Amendment in a debate that was civilised, and emotional at times. Her colleague Billy Kelleher, Fianna Fáil’s Health spokesperson told the Dáil that his personal and political discomfort was nothing in comparison to the discomfort of women dealing with crisis pregnancies.“It’s inhumane that our country forces citizens with a fatal foetal abnormality diagnosis to FedX their baby home to Ireland.”
Sinn Fein TD Mary Lou McDonald was one of many TDs who spoke of the State’s past brutal treatment of women saying that the “obsessive control of women” came from within the highest levels of Church and State. “Abortion pills are being taken in Ireland and if we do nothing some women in the not-to-distant future will rupture her uterus and die.”
There was a lot of talk about protecting women, however, PBP TD Brid Smith seemed astonished by the amount of “protection” the government had afforded from the Strike4Repeal protesters outside.
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