Women Hurt abortion testimonies
Senator Walsh urges colleagues to attend testimonies from women who had abortions, arguing that hearing their experiences will inform conscience and future legislation.
We all received an invitation from Deputy Timmins within the past few days to attend the AV room this afternoon at 4.15 p.m. to hear Women Hurt, who are a group of women who have had abortions and who have shared their stories. They came to our parliamentary party and I think it would be fair to say that, of the 11 people who attended, all were struck by their stories. I have gone to the National Women's Council of Ireland, which takes the other side of this coin on the pro-abortion side, because I believe it is up to us all to inform ourselves-----
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I would appeal to everybody here, regardless of where they stand on the issue, to go this afternoon and listen to these women, as part of the informing of our conscience in regard to how we deal with this issue.