Opposition to abortion reform
Senator Mullen attacks Amnesty International’s support for abortion access and proposes removing criminal penalties for women while retaining them for abortion providers.
I find it very sad that Amnesty International which has done so much good work during the years has tainted its human rights credentials, not only by promoting legalised prostitution and the cause of pimps and users of persons in prostitution but also in its virulent campaign for legalised abortion. It is disturbing to see promoters of legalised abortion using the tragic cases of those whose child has been diagnosed with a severe foetal abnormality as the wedge issue on which to destroy the eight amendment in this country when the reality is that these campaigners want to see abortion legalised in far wider circumstances, starting with but not confined to people with a disability generally.
Comment on this
In their world, if one is not what they call "wanted", one is not worthy of life. It is wrong and dishonest to invoke the fact that there are criminal sanctions for women in cases of abortion. There are criminal sanctions for women in every country which has an abortion regime. I challenge Senator Ivana Bacik and others in the sense that I would support removing all criminal sanctions for women in cases of abortion if they would support the retention of criminal sanctions for abortionist doctors and others involved in this process, which is tragically destructive. Those who propose abortion have a tragically destructive world view that is exclusive of other human beings.
Ba bhreá liom dá bhféadfaidh an tAire Talmhaíochta, Bia agus Mara teacht isteach anseo chun labhairt faoin gclár géanómaíochta agus sonraí mairteola. Tá féidearthachtaí móra ag baint leis an scéim seo, mar a bhaineann sé le réimse na mairteola ach go háirid, ach mura gcuirtear ina luí ar fheirmeoirí na tíre seo go bhfuil tairbhe nach beag sa scéim seo dóibh, ní bheidh aon rath uirthi. Ba chóir don Aire teacht os comhair an Tí chun cuntas a thabhairt dúinn ar fhorbairt na scéime seo. Caithfear rannpháirtíocht na bhfeirmeoirí sa scéim seo a chinntiú agus go práinneach. Má theipeann ar an Roinn é seo a dhéanamh, tá inmharthanacht chuid mhór de theaghlaigh na tíre seo i mbaol dáiríre.
I would like the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to come to the House-----