Voting to repeal Ireland’s constitutional protections for mothers and unborn children would be “a leap into the dark” like “signing a blank cheque”, solicitor Alan Daveron told delegates at the RENUA Ireland AGM.
Speaking at the Tullamore Court Hotel, Mr Daveron asked whether voters could trust a government which had defied the popular will to introduce water charges, for example.
‘’No-one knows what the government really plans to do,’’ he said, criticising the lack of balanced public debate on the subject, and maintaining that the right to life is a human rights issue that transcends religious belief.
“I do not believe we have the right to tell a child they do not have the right to be born,’’ he said.
The AGM also saw RENUA Ireland leader John Leahy brand Amnesty International a “disgrace” and “knowing traitors to the cause of human rights” over their support for legal abortion.
