DUBLIN, Ireland, December 4, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The pro-abortion Irish health minister and his deputy are still refusing to meet with pro-life nurses and midwives about their conscience rights.
In a recent press release, Ireland’s Nurses & Midwives for Life have said that the Irish government’s health minister Simon Harris and the leader of the opposition, Michael Martin, will not meet with them.
The group says that almost 500 nurses and midwives on the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMI) register signed a petition in the last three weeks to Harris calling on him to protect their freedom of conscience and to support amendments to the republic’s proposed liberalized abortion law in relation to freedom of conscience.
“Nurses and midwives who do not want to participate in abortions are extremely concerned in relation to Section 24(3) of the bill which states *Section 24 (3) A person who has a conscientious objection referred to in subsection (1) shall, as soon as may be, make such arrangements for the transfer of care of the pregnant woman concerned as may be necessary to enable the woman to avail of the termination of pregnancy concerned,” said the group.
Meanwhile, they are “appalled”
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