PAIN

Professor Stuart Derbyshire 2006:

‘Avoiding a discussion of fetal pain with women requesting abortions is not misguided paternalism but a sound policy based on good evidence that fetuses cannot experience pain.’


Professor Stuart Derbyshire 2020 (with Professor John Brockman):

‘Fetal analgesia and anaesthesia should thus be standard for abortions in the second trimester, especially after 18 weeks when there is good evidence for a functional connection from the periphery and into the brain.’

‘Fetal analgesia results in a fetus with lowered blood pressure and reduced heart rate, and a fetus that is still and appears quiescent and calm.’

READ IT HERE

This is a horrible subject. It goes without saying that everybody undergoing a painful procedure should have pain relief.

As should unborn babies, (or foetuses, if you prefer).

Ah but they don’t suffer, they aren’t sentient, say the pro abort crowd. A clump of cells (yes, they’re still saying that!) a parasite (parasites are always different species) a blob of tissue, etc.

I wish with all my heart that these people are right. Because for 30+ years now we in USA and UK and other parts of the ‘civilised’ world have scalded and dismembered these little ones to bring about their demise. We’ve done this to millions of tiny silent human beings with the ability to experience pain in the 2nd and 3rd trimester.

I have no more words. If the pro-abortion lobby turn their backs, if they stop up their ears, shut their eyes - if they choose to ignore, if they don’t care , History will condemn them later. Hopefully before they die, so they can repent and not go to Hell, which is what you get for inflicting pain, injury and death on innocent human beings.

Their descendants will be ashamed to claim them.

As usual, the intellectual mainstream media are ignoring this. Surely there are several souls among the media who are very uneasy with enabling legal abortion?  They need to have courage to speak out and join us to try make abortion unthinkable.

Sr Miriam Duggan

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all! An inspirational Irishwoman, in the spirit of St. Patrick - Keep the Catholic Faith, it is the Pearl of Great Price!

A Dark Day nothing to do with December

the Termination of Pregnancy Bill has now passed the Dail and the Seanad. A few brave TDs and Senators spoke with wisdom and compassion, begging for humane amendments to be added, only to be met with triumphalism and eye-rolling, skitting and interrupting.
It's the most shameful time ever in Irish History.
But it's not over. The President may sign the Bill, but it's an unjust Law.
Tragic.
Now the Minister for Trollies is 'delighted' at the outcome. NARAL tweeted that it was 'so exciting!' Ivana Bacik said something too that you only say when you hear you've passed your exams with honours or something. Everybody it seems, is in a party mood at the prospect of killing babies in Ireland at last. 'Women will never have to travel for health care anymore,' cooed one lady named Lorraine.
Well Lorraine, because the Health Service is just not a Service at the moment, men, women and children have to travel to other jurisdictions for treatment. What about the elderly women with cataracts? What about the children with scoliosis?
Women wanting abortion will push other women down the waiting lists for gynae issues. Ill women perhaps who need biopsies for cancer, and treatment for various gynae problems.
Congratulations, all! You seem to crave it. I can almost see the first abortion carried out in Ireland as a sort of triumphal march. But they won't show any remains.
I've been on social media 'educating' all day. I will continue to open people's eyes to the hidden filth that is the abortion industry.

Many Yes voters will become Prolife Activists

I have a problem with the Media. It is not what they say it's what they don't say.

Repealers went crazy when they saw photos of preborn babies.
But there's a preborn baby on a poster advising women not to smoke during pregnancy and nobody has rung radio shows about that...go figure.
The Ultimate Hypocrisy is calling the being in the human womb a BABY if wanted and everything but a BABY if he or she is not.
If there is no life in the womb, why bother checking for a heartbeat at antenatal checks? Why keep a Kick Chart?
The prochoice side is so full of HOLES that the only way to shut the prolifers up was to ridicule us, vilify us, suppress our voices and shove 10,000 of us on a Repeal Shield.
One day the truth will come out and Yessers will repent in big numbers. They'll say:
'I never knew. RTE never showed us a scan. Why not? If this referendum was about magpie eggs, wouldn't they have shown us eggs? Baby birds maybe, hatching? Why didn't they show us the little one in the womb?' (foetus is Latin for little one)
They withheld the TRUTH and allowed us to be coerced, bullied and frightened into abortion by a constant trail of Hard Cases and the lie that pregnant women could not being treated for illness in Ireland. A LIE they got away with.
Even episiotomies were blamed on the 8th Amendment! As a midwife, this is tragi-comedy.
Ireland's Saddest Day Ever was May 25th.
But we are not done. We lost the Battle, but the War is still on. Very much on. Notice how the doctors are not running to 'serve women' in abortions? Every doctor knows every abortion ends in the death of a new human being!
Taoiseach, if you want abortions done in Ireland I suggest you quit Leinster House and put on your white coat. (probably a dirty white coat; abortion doctors are reckoned by colleagues to be the lowest in the profession) But you won't, will you? OK for other doctors to do the dirty work you began.

Make Abortion History - they said it

My Response

Dear Editor
I hold one of the accounts blocked by the Repeal_Shield. I see that the administrators have charged that the 8,000
accounts blocked 'have been abusive, have spread misinformation about repeal or abortion, or have engaged in consistent
trolling of pro-choice accounts.'
I trained as a nurse, midwife and public health nurse in Ireland and the UK and worked in Ireland for 20 years. When the
repeal movement began to take off, and questions began to be asked about pregnancy and birth, I thought my knowledge
would be useful. But I was in for a shock. Instead of welcoming information, many repealers were hostile. I was called a
Liar more times than I can count, a Fraud, a Plastic Paddy, (funny) a Fake Nurse, and worse!
All I was doing was sharing my knowledge and experiences during my 40-year career in healthcare, some of them around
abortion in the UK and later, here in the USA, where I live in a State which NARAL give an A grade to. I was never
abusive, never called anybody names. I never spread misinformation, and I have never 'trolled'. The problem I found
though, is that if you contradict the repeal side, they call that trolling.
Name, etc

Letter about Repeal Shield to Irish Times!

Sir, – As the administrators of the Repeal Shield twitter account, we would appreciate the opportunity to clarify some points made by Phelim McAleer.

Repeal Shield is a twitter account which uses the freely available “Block Together” tool to block accounts that we feel have been abusive, have spread misinformation about repeal or abortion, or have engaged in consistent trolling of pro-choice accounts.

Our 3,000 users have signed up voluntarily and we have blocked in excess of 8,000 accounts on their behalf.

Contrary to Phelim McAleer’s assertion, none of these accounts have been blocked because of their anti-repeal views. They have been blocked because of the manner of their engagement.

It is also important to note that Repeal Shield users can unsubscribe at any time.

However, our feedback is that the overwhelming majority find their twitter experience greatly enhanced by using the tool.

Finally, Repeal Shield is not affiliated to, or materially supported by, any of the organisations set up to campaign for repeal.

We are an entirely voluntary group set up in order to counter lies and abuse from those who oppose repeal and do not engage in respectful, civilised debate. – Yours, etc,

BRIAN LEONARD,

Flaxweiler,

Luxembourg;

HAZEL O’KEEFE,

Frankfurt,

Germany;

NIAMH NOLAN,

Limerick;

AIDAN O’BRIEN,

Drimnagh,

Dublin 12.