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AROUND 66 PER cent of people are in favour of medical practice that treats the expectant mother and her baby as equals, according to a poll carried out on behalf of the Pro Life Campaign.
Excluding ‘don’t knows’, the poll also shows that 3 in 4 people are in favour of constitutional protection for the unborn child that prohibits abortion but allows the existing practice of medical intervention to save a mother.
Caroline Simons, Legal Consultant to the Pro Life Campaign, said the findings published today “challenge the notion that there is broad middle ground support for abortion in Ireland”.
New laws are currently being drafted by the Government on the X Case, which allows for abortion where a woman’s life is at risk including from the threat of suicide.
The poll, conducted by Millward Brown, asked 970 people, aged 18+, during January 2013 two questions on pro-life issues:
Q1. In current medical practice in Ireland, the doctor treats the expectant mother and her baby as two patients and does his/her best to safeguard both in a crisis situation. Do you consider that this practice should be protected and safeguarded by law or not?Result: Yes: 66%. No: 15%. No Opinion: 19%
Of those who expressed an opinion 81% answered YES.
Q2. Are you in favour of, or opposed to constitutional protection for the unborn that prohibits abortion but allows the continuation of the existing practice of intervention to save a mother’s life in accordance with Irish medical ethics?Result: Yes: 63%. No: 19%. No opinion: 18%.
Of those who expressed an opinion: 77% answered YES.
Simons believes this poll differs from others published recently citing support for abortion. She says by using the word “abortion” in the question without defining just what it means “leads to uninformed answers”. “Polls using lists of emotive circumstances also tend to distort results,” she added.
The poll contradicts an Ipsos MRBI poll in the Irish Times earlier this month that shows 85 per cent of people in Ireland favour abortion in certain circumstances. It also said that 12 per cent believe that abortion should not be permitted under any circumstances.
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Good to see a pillar bank being progressive in appointing a young woman to the top job.
I’d be scared of her.
Poached? How can they afford that? Why can’t they offer more competitive interest rates for instance instead of wasting their money on overpaid overpriced exec’s from England?
@An_Beal_Bocht:
Yawn
@An_Beal_Bocht: I’m pretty sure they are in the black now so I’m sure they can well afford to pay her a decent wage. And if you’re not happy with their interest rates go elsewhere- Ulster Bank and KBC both have more attractive products on offer.
A bailout loan was only €3.5m? Is that supposed to be billion?
I would like to know if she was involved with any of money laundrying schemes for organized crime which HSBC was convicted if a couple of years back
Not good at all. This is going to backfire spectacularly.
@Rockhopper617: Why?
€950000 a year-that’s around €17000 a week without bonouses wow! the poor woman i think i’ll send her on a few bob,
Another riSe in your bank statements to pay for the poaching
Another heartless hatc -faced creep who couldn’t care less about the customers.
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