Abortion proponents are using the courts to try and impose abortion on Ireland, and the country's government is pushing a new law to legalize it.
For two decades, government leaders have resisted passing a law to support a 1992 Supreme Court ruling that pushed for legalized abortion in Ireland. Brian Clowes of Human Life International (HLI) tells OneNewsNow the proposal does contain exceptions.
"To push these really so-called 'strict' exceptions, they're going to legalize abortion to save the life of the mother in Ireland, and also if the woman threatens suicide," the pro-lifer reports.
"Well, here's what's up about that -- that's really abortion on demand, because the abortionists say each and every pregnancy threatens a woman's life from a strict medical viewpoint; [and therefore] every pregnancy should be aborted."
Before abortion was legalized in America, that logic was used to justify an otherwise illegal "therapeutic" procedure. For example, Clowes says an abortionist might tell a girl or woman, "All you have to do is tell me that you just thought about suicide, and I can do this abortion."
"So, these pro-abortion people are the same all over the world," the HLI spokesman decides. "They're as dishonest as the day is long. If you have these two exceptions -- to save the mother's life, that can justify all abortions; if she threatens suicide, that can justify all abortions. It's just a complete sham."
The call for legalized abortion in Ireland stems from the recent death of a pregnant mother. But abortion proponents are not reporting that the woman never requested an abortion and actually died from an infection.