A motion has been passed opposing any form of legislation on abortion today by Donegal County Council. The majority of county councillors backed the motion which was brought forward by Cllr Renagh Donaghey from Buncrana. Seventeen councillors backed the motion, six abstained and one voted against. The move has been welcomed by Cathal Quinn, spokesperson for Donegal For Life.Thought and Action observes that "among the Councillors who voted in favour were members of Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Labour and Independents. Sinn Fein abstained."
Pat Buckley of the European Life Network also points out that "Ireland without abortion has the lowest level of maternal mortality making it the safest place in the world for mothers to give birth."
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Amen to Ireland. Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan said that the USA Catholics often look to Ireland for guidance. Here is another example.
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Donegal - the county of my forebears. Tir Chonaill gu brath!
"Sinn Féin abstained".
Yeah... that figures all right, given their long history of support for murder.
This sort of vote is intended as a warning signal across the bows of the (coalition) Government, who are currently awaiting the report of an "expert group" on the abortion legislation question, despite the fact that the majority party gave a pre-election pro-life pledge. Even the junior partner, Labour, despite containing a healthy percentage at the upper levels of ex-student-Marxists-turned-middle-class-lefties, is by no means uniformly in favour. The issue would be extremely divisive at a national level, so they'll probably kick whatever the report recommends into touch and endure the howls of rage from all the usual suspects, encouraged of course by their (many)activist...ooops, sorry, journalist... friends in the national media.
What is disturbing is that the Minister for Health already loaded two strong pro-aborts onto the expert group but tried to do it on the sly over Christmas when they thought no-one was looking. What is even more disturbing is that the same Minister, a doctor, has just appointed the former head of the Irish affiliate of Planned Parenthood as head of the Health Services Executive.
But I would expect that there will be quite a few more such votes in Councils and Authorities, especially in the rural areas, which should serve to keep our masters "on message".
@Father Finigan
Kathy Sinnott the disability rights campaigner, and former MEP for the South constituency in Ireland in the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009, thanked me for alerting her to this post on your influential blog, which I am sure will also be of great interest to your friends in Lublin as well as Dublin.
Our Lady of the Rosary pray for us!
PAPA VERO ORA PRO NOBIS!
Kind regards
Roy Hobson http://www.mixcloud.com/roy-hobson/ aka "Vesper"
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