Bishop's reaction to Irish
Supreme Court ruling on unborn
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The Irish Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the unborn
has no constitutional rights outside the Eighth Amendment.
By Lydia O'Kane
The Amendment in Ireland’s constitution commits authorities
to defend equally the right to life of a mother and an unborn child.
Abortion in the country is legal only in rare cases when a
woman's life is in danger.
The Irish State had appealed a High Court ruling that found
the unborn has Constitutional rights beyond the right to life.
The issue of the rights of the unborn was brought to the
fore in a case involving a Nigerian man who was facing deportation. He wanted
the judgment repealed by the country’s Justice Minister.
His Irish partner was due to give birth to a baby weeks
after the case began.
In the High Court judgment it was found that the unborn
child had rights under the Constitution beyond the right to life.
This finding was appealed by the State, which argued the
only right the unborn has is the right to be born.
“Manifest injustice” to the unborn
Meanwhile,
The Catholic Bishops of Ireland on Tuesday evening released
a statement saying the repeal of the Eighth Amendment, “would leave unborn
children at the mercy of whatever permissive abortion laws might be introduced
in Ireland in the future”.
They also said it would be “a shocking step” and “a manifest
injustice” to the unborn.
Giving his reaction to the Supreme Court ruling the Bishop
of Kilmore, in Ireland, Leo O’Reilly described, the judgment was
“disappointing". Last weekend Bishop O’Reilly issued a pastoral letter to
the faithful of his diocese entitled, “Every human life is sacred.”
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