During the grotesque abortion campaign in Ireland in 2018, one of the most repulsive moments (no small feat) involved a sign that was held by two small brothers alongside their mother. The sign read ‘I was a chosen child’.
The inference was that their lives had intrinsic meaning because of their mother’s intention. Their lives were worthless without it. It is the same type of motive that led Carthaginian women to bring their newborns to the Temple as a sacrifice to the gods. Or leads American women to abort their babies to form Fleetwood Mac or to have a mediocre acting career. They assert their own divinity by virtue of making themselves masters of life and death, forgetting that they will die.
Repeal the 8th as a campaign, was at times spiteful, at times hysterical and at times even demonic, such as when the Irish Department of Arts funded a Satanic Ritual entitled ‘The Renunciation’, imagining the Virgin Mary as an Irish woman who aborts Christ in England.
Amidst the bloodthirsty euphoria of celebration in Dublin Castle in late May 2018, which resembled the Colosseum cheering on the devouring of Christians by lions, there was little room for sobriety. The incompetent Health Minister, Simon Harris, had presided over disaster after disaster in his role, eventually bringing down the last government as a result. Warnings from prolifers that this new regime would lead to a rise in maternal mortality rates, a rise in deaths during pregnancy and a defunding of vital maternal services were ignored. Instead, the likes of Fine Gael’s Kate O’Connell, taunted prolifers (at the time begging for babies born alive during abortion to be revived) that ‘we won…it must be hurting…but we’ll get our way’.
In Winter 2020, the nightmare is quickly unfolding. Birthrates have freefallen, by 25% in the last 5 years. Abortions have rapidly increased to 6,666 a year. At least one baby has been misdiagnosed with a terminal illness when they were healthy and has died as a result. And now too, overcrowding in abortion providing maternity hospitals is causing disease to spread and killing babies. Prioritising abortions has led to thousands of gynaecology appointments being delayed, with one abortion providing hospital having thousands of women on a waiting list.
In today’s papers, Ireland’s journalists were once again discussing a ‘chosen child’. The tragic case of a baby aborted when it was misdiagnosed as having a fatal abnormality was described in the Irish Independent as a ‘much wanted baby’. As though the 6,666 aborted alongside it last year were of less value because they were unwanted.
In another horrific development, one Sunday newspaper in Ireland reported on the rapidly deteriorating conditions in one maternity hospital in Ireland. This particular maternity hospital was reported to have performed at least one abortion per day in the past year. Conditions for critical women were described as the worst in Ireland at this hospital. The infrastructure was described as ageing and inadequate. It also mentioned the deaths of two babies from an outbreak, albeit prior to Repeal in 2017. We were also told that the infection rate for babies is very high and for this reason, the neonatal intensive care unit must close at 70% occupancy due to lack of space.
Another Maternity Hospital, the Coombe, had a budget deficit last year and that is set to get worse this year, to the tune of 4 million, after budget cuts.
Is is any surprise that Ireland’s pro abort establishment don’t value women? And childbirth?
We’ll point out some more inevitabilities.
More women will die in childbirth than had previously done, abortion will increase rapidly as the government makes childbirth more expensive and rearing a child less economically viable, funding for maternity hospitals will continue to decrease as large sums of money are pumped into abortion (€450 just for the abortion).
But, on a note of hope, the abortion legislation is coming up for review. We ask people to focus on ONE particular area, which is urgent in light of the issues highlighted here.
Ask your TDs, your Senators, to remove the taxpayer funding for abortion.
This will
a) Greatly reduce abortion numbers
b) Allow large amounts of tax money to be put BACK into our Maternal Health system where it is needed.
All children matter, because they are chosen by God to exist. Let’s take care of them. And let’s make our country a safe place for mothers to raise them.