Abortion and family-planning organisations
Senator Rónán Mullen urges consideration of abortion’s consequences and calls for the Irish Family Planning Association to sever links with Planned Parenthood International. The Chair rules his language out of order, prompting strong objections from Senator Ivana Bacik.
Yes. I ask Members of this House and people elsewhere who talk glibly about deleting the eighth amendment to the Constitution to consider the reality of abortion and who is involved in it. I urge Members, although it is difficult, to view this chilling video which shows the terrible callousness and cruelty of an industry based on the destruction of human life. As parliamentarians, we should call on the Irish Family Planning Association to cut all links with Planned Parenthood International. It is a rogue organisation which is apparently engaged in an illegal criminal conspiracy in the United States.
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It is simply not appropriate for a tax-funded group in this country to be associated with such murderous people.
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I object in the strongest possible terms to the use of that language by the Senator in respect of a very respected NGO, the Irish Family Planning Association.
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The Senator's credentials on the issue of the protection of human rights are simply appalling. I am afraid her words carry no weight.
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The Senator is entitled to his opinion. I am afraid his credentials on the issue of-----