Decent Irish people are gathering together to resist various evils foisted on them by their liberal elite - and abortion is right at the top of the list! Thousands have marched in Dublin urging the Government to act in response to the “heartbreaking” escalation in abortions.
Rally for Life campaigners spotlighted the latest figures from the Department of Health, which show that 10,033 abortions were carried out in 2023 – almost a quarter more than the previous year.
Overall, abortions have rocketed by 250 per cent since the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) repealed the Republic’s pro-life laws five years ago.
‘Cheerleader for abortion’
The campaign group said: “We’re marching to demand the government acts as the heartbreaking rise in abortions continues – 10,000 abortions in 2023 alone.”
Organiser and keynote speaker Niamh Uí Bhriain told the gathering that “a society that decides that the most helpless of all its citizens can be deprived of their fundamental right is a broken culture”.
After the march, she called on the Government “to stop acting as a cheerleader for abortion and instead set up a taskforce to see why these numbers are rising so fast”.
Roman Catholic Bishop Elphin Kevin Doran described the march as “a significant political act which draws attention once again to the evil of abortion”.
Commenting on the rise in the number of abortions, he said: “These are not just statistics; they are innocent human beings, each with his or her own unique identity.”
He added: “Why is it that, in our society, we hesitate to rejoice in the gift of life. Of course, it is not always easy to see pregnancy as a gift, but could it be that our society is becoming conditioned to see pregnancy as a problem?”
In May, it was revealed that the Health Service Executive (HSE) spent €8.5 million on chemical abortion pills between 2019 and the end of 2022.
Since the death pills became legal in early 2019, the number of chemical abortions has risen from 6,017 in 2019 to 8,595 in 2022.