Tomorrow (1.7.17), I’ll be at the Save the 8th Rally for Life in Dublin along with tens of thousands of others who support the right
to life for the unborn child.
No doubt, at some point we will pass the few screeching
pro-aborts in counter demonstration as they hiss, spit and shout obscenities in
our direction while holding aloft their placards displaying a variety of
bizarre and vulgar messages:
“My body – my choice” - is a fairly common placard and
its message is oblivious to the reality that the developing foetus
is in fact an individual with its own unique DNA.
“Keep your rosaries off my ovaries” - is an old
favourite and is an attempt to portray pro-lifers as being motivated simply by religious
belief while ignoring the facts that some of us are atheists and human life
does not begin at ovulation.
“If abortion is murder then blowjobs r cannibalism”
- now that is a new one, which really highlights the level of scientific ignorance
in the ranks of the pro-choice brigade.
Just as human life does not begin at ovulation, neither
does it begin at ejaculation; it actually begins at conception and this is not
a belief of mine, it is a long established undeniable scientific fact. Unlike the spermatozoa depicted on the placard, the facts are hard to swallow
for many pro-choice campaigners, so they either deny or blatantly ignore them.
They don’t like the fact that human life begins at conception, so they uses phrases like “a clump of
cells” to deny the humanity of the unborn child.
They don’t like the fact that the term “fatal foetal
abnormality” is not actually a real medical
diagnosis, but they use it anyway to try and convince others that it is.
They completely ignore the fact that medical
inquiries (HIQA and HSE) found that Savita Halappanavar died
of sepsis that went undetected due to negligence and they continue to use her
tragic death to promote their twisted agenda for abortion-on-demand in Ireland.
Yes indeed, the facts can be triggering for some
pro-aborts; I have been spit on and screeched at on more than one occasion and I
have encountered pro-choice campaigners that refused to engage in debate simply
because I am a man; saying that I shouldn’t even have a vote in the referendum!
Despite the fact that I spent the first nine-months
of my life in my mother’s womb I should be excluded from the debate because my
father’s spermatozoon carried the Y chromosome?
Of course this demented argument doesn’t apply to all men.
Of course this demented argument doesn’t apply to all men.
It doesn’t apply to celebrechauns like Liam Neeson
or Cillian Murphy when they campaign for abortion. Nor does it apply to billionaires
like George Soros and Warren Buffet when they lavishly fund abortion campaigns
and pay for women to have abortions. It certainly doesn’t apply to men like Amnesty International’s Colm
O’Gormon when they’re leading pro-abortion campaigns; their lack of a womb
doesn’t seem to matter to the twits on Twitter who furiously tweet out #NoUterusNoOpinion.
It only applies to pro-life men; men like Dr. Anthony
Levatino, a practicing obstetrician, gynaecologist and
former abortionist who performed over 1,200 abortions before realising that he
was, in fact, taking human life.
Dr.
Levatino’s testimony to the so-called Citizen's Assembly
clearly fell on deaf ears as it recommended that the Oireachtas should
legislate for abortion without restriction in Ireland.
An Oireachtas committee has now been established and a referendum will be held next year because the fact is, despite the catchy slogan, you cannot simply “Repeal the 8th” like legislation. Our Constitution must be amended and it will be up to the people of Ireland, Irishmen and Irishwomen, to decide how much we actually value human life.
An Oireachtas committee has now been established and a referendum will be held next year because the fact is, despite the catchy slogan, you cannot simply “Repeal the 8th” like legislation. Our Constitution must be amended and it will be up to the people of Ireland, Irishmen and Irishwomen, to decide how much we actually value human life.
The value that Irish society has for human life is
central to this debate, just as is our desire to ensure that women receive the
support and compassion they need when they face an unexpected pregnancy.
Valuing human life and looking for real support and care for women is something
that everyone, regardless of gender, should support.
Just as our Constitution seeks to protect the right to life of the unborn with the 8th Amendment it also guarantee’s our right to vote “without distinction of sex”, so it is daft for pro-choicers to even raise this as an issue. Trying to exclude men from the debate is an attempt to distract from the facts - and as a former pro-choicer I know how important those facts are in the battle for hearts and minds.
Just as our Constitution seeks to protect the right to life of the unborn with the 8th Amendment it also guarantee’s our right to vote “without distinction of sex”, so it is daft for pro-choicers to even raise this as an issue. Trying to exclude men from the debate is an attempt to distract from the facts - and as a former pro-choicer I know how important those facts are in the battle for hearts and minds.
The facts are gender neutral and
as a man I will continue to distribute them with my fellow pro-lifers
door-to-door and person-to-person, changing one mind at a time. As a father I
will continue to raise my children to value all human life, and as a community
activist I will continue to help vulnerable families as best I can and promote
better alternatives to women that are considering an abortion or suffering from
Post-Abortion Syndrome.
When I pass those screeching harpies tomorrow, I
will be holding my head high.