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Eighth Amendment
Pro-choice and pro-life groups march in Dublin
Both were marching in reaction to last week’s news that a rape victim was denied an abortion.
AROUND 2,500 PEOPLE marched in Dublin today, as abortion dominates the headlines again.
Pro-choice protesters marched from the GPO, demanding the repeal of the Eighth Amendment. Further down O’Connell Street, pro-life campaigners rallied, pinning the blame for the Ms Y abortion case on Enda Kenny.
“If Enda Kenny has a conscience, I hope he is ashamed of what his law has deliberately inflicted on that tiny little baby boy, gasping to take a breath. His abortion law has fallen at the very first hurdle, and Mr Kenny now needs to repeal this cruel and unworkable abortion act,” Niamh Uí Bhriain of the Life Institute said.
Dr. Eoghan de Faoite, one of the vigil organisers said that the Ms Y case “broke every rule of medicine”.
At the pro-choice rally, Socialist TD Ruth Coppinger said that the Catholic Church’s “time has gone”.
“This is our time now,” she added.
Ross Kelly from Doctors for Choice said that the laws in place were there to “shame women” who seek abortions.
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