Cathal BarryThe Pro Life Campaign has said the Government’s guidelines on abortion issued last week “reinforce the obscenity of the new law”.
The organisation also claims that as a direct result of last year’s abortion law, “a defenceless baby at this very moment is clinging to life in an Irish hospital”.
PLC deputy chairperson Cora Sherlock said: “The law introduced last year was presented as emergency legislation needed to save women’s lives. If this were true, it wouldn’t have taken over a year for the Government to draw up the guidelines.
“The truth of course is that the legislation was never about life-saving treatments. It was always about Fine Gael capitulating to the Labour Party, who had campaigned for 20 years for an abortion regime in Ireland.”
She claimed the guidelines “reinforce the obscenity of the new law where the life of a baby can be directly ended or delivered prematurely at a stage in pregnancy that poses huge risks to the baby, all because the new law provides for such interventions without any medical evidence to back it up.
“This horrific reality illustrates the absurdity of the Fine Gael claim that the new law is life-affirming,” she said.