DUBLIN, Ireland, December 15, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The Irish government’s advisory committee on the upcoming abortion referendum has voted for abortion.
On December 13, the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment voted to recommend abortion on demand up to 12 weeks and until birth on undefined health grounds.
Ireland’s Pro Life Campaign said the Committee’s decision was “a total betrayal of women and their unborn babies and represents a tragic shift backwards for society rather than a step forward. Anyone who tries to suggest that today’s vote is not for abortion on demand is telling a lie.”
In protest of the decision, the three pro-life members of the Committee have quit.
The Irish Examiner reported that Rónán Mullen, Mattie McGrath, and Peter Fitzpatrick issued a joint statement saying why they will not sign the Committee’s recommendations:
“As members of the committee, we have attempted at all times to seek a fair and thorough analysis of issues pertaining to the Citizens’ Assembly report and recommendations on the Eighth Amendment,” they said. “The systemic imbalance in the functioning of the committee precluded any fair assessment of the issues. An unacceptably flawed process has led inevitably to cruel and
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