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A PRO-LIFE GROUP has criticised Amnesty International for calling for abortion to be decriminalised.
A group of protesters gathered outside a conference being held by Amnesty in Dublin yesterday.
A recent poll carried out by Red C for Amnesty found that only 7% of people agreed that women should be imprisoned for up to 14 years for having an unlawful abortion.
Asked whether the government should decriminalise terminations, 67% agreed and 25% disagreed. Some 81% are in favour of significantly widening the grounds for legal abortion access in Ireland.
However, over 140,000 people have signed a petition calling for Amnesty to stop advocating for abortion.
Niamh Uí Bhriain of the Life Institute said Amnesty’s position is “incompatible with a genuine human rights stance”.
“You can’t claim to be a human rights protector and then campaign for the lives of innocent children can be brutally ended. The progressive answer to a crisis pregnancy is to provide support and to help both mother and baby.
“Abortion is a medieval solution, and has no place in a society where human rights are respected,” she said.
Speaking about the survey results, Colm O’Gorman, Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland, said:
It is clear that Irish views on abortion have undergone a major transformation. People in Ireland are now, on the whole, more understanding of the situations women find themselves in and firmly believe that women should not be criminalised for having an abortion.
The issue of widening the grounds for legal abortion in Ireland has long been a contentious issue.
The next government is likely to come under pressure to revisit the issue and consider repealing the 8th Amendment, which gives equal importance to the right of the unborn to that of the mother.
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Hope it will bring closure to some distraught family.Rip whoever you are.
My thoughts exactly,as awful as it is, it is relief or finality for someone out there (in a way). Maybe find lots more if they had the manpower to search and could finally let many families minds rest over the whereabouts of their loved ones
If the truth was known I am sure a majority of missing bodies could be found in the Dublin and Wicklow mountains.
It is such a vast and inhospitable area.
I guess if turf-cutting was to become more common place …who knows what they might find.
That area really isn’t tallaght. Bodies have been dumped up there since before the British built that road
Bodies have been dumped everywhere since ……… Umm Adam & Eve !!
Military Road is not Tallaght.
who gives a fu@k where it is! 5 comments on this tread and 3 were about the fuckin geography!! get a grip, someones son, daughter, mother or father was found, and sad as it may be i hope some family find comfort in the fact that their loved one can finally be brought home and given a place to rest in peace.
Well said Ger. Thinking the same myself scrolling down.
Here here ger. Who friggin cares the exact location. Human remains found, family members whereabouts found!!!!
R.I.P who ever you are and hopefully your family will be able to lay you to rest now
Rest In Peace .
Sad, but the headline brings a slight smile. Like Wood Quay! Human remains in Tallaght? I should hope so.
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