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Standing Tall at Home and Abroad
Part Three of Three By Dave Andrusko The headline in the pro-abortion Guardian newspaper this morning was "Abortion in Europe: A right that isn't: Ireland is only one of several European nations to take a restrictive approach to abortion."
The Guardian's lament is that there is not a "continental unity" on abortion. What the newspaper means, of course, is that there are islands of protection, such as Ireland and Malta. Anti-Catholicism, a reflex in many publications in Europe, lays much of the "blame" on the Catholic Church. "[T]he Republic remains a deeply Catholic country and this affects both public opinion and the parameters of the politically possible on the abortion question," the Guardian opines. The implication--and elsewhere it's not implied, but more or less stated--is that opposition to abortion is both extremist and a holdover from the Middle Ages. But how much more extreme can you get than lamenting, as the Guardian does, that "even in Britain there is no absolute right to a termination at every stage of pregnancy." Pro-abortionists are never satisfied, and would never be until and unless there is no corner in the earth that lacks an "absolute right to a termination at every stage of pregnancy." It's up to us, here and abroad, to stand athwart their campaigns to overthrow protective legislation and to return protections where previously lost. Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. |
In
Part One we wrote about the decision of the Grand Chamber of the European
Court of Human Rights on a challenge brought by three women against
Ireland's protective abortion laws ("International Court Takes Aim at
Ireland's Abortion Law But Finds No 'Right' to Abortion" ). Please take a
few minutes to read it.