David Quinn wrote a provocative column in this past weekend’s Sunday Independent, asking a simple question: How many of those who voted to repeal the eighth amendment, he wondered, knew that within five years of their vote, there would be 8,500 abortions per year?
David’s thesis, which is shared by many pro-lifers, is that the public were essentially duped: That they voted for Savita Halappanaver, and women carrying babies that were going to die, and for a little bit of “compassion”. They ended up with an industrial scale abortion industry which is growing by the year. Now, after the review of the abortion laws, almost all of the remaining restrictions on abortion seem very likely to be removed, and abortion at any stage decriminalised. Some voters may now regret this, goes the thinking, and we should be angry on their behalf.
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