After promising voters it would be “rare”, this government has presided over a situation where abortion rates have rocketed. The numbers are absolutely shocking: shooting up to 6,666 in the first year, jumping to 8,156 in 2022 – and now, if early indicators are correct, perhaps 10,000 abortions in 2023.
Yet, the sole focus of the government seems to be on making things worse – and fretting that there isn’t yet enough access to abortion despite the soaring numbers.
Minister of Health, Stephen Donnelly, who you might remember back in April seemed pretty pleased and enthusiastic to announce on the News at One that he thought 8,500 women had availed of abortion services in Ireland in 2022, has now said that that five more hospitals will start carrying out abortions in December.
The Irish Times reports:
The commencement of terminations in St Luke’s hospital, Kilkenny; Letterkenny University Hospital; Wexford General Hospital; Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise; and Portiuncula hospital, Ballinasloe, follows the recruitment of staff specifically tasked to provide the service.
With this latest expansion of the service, 17 out of 19 maternity units in the Republic will be carrying out terminations.
It is expected terminations will be provided in the two remaining units – Cavan General Hospital and South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel – next year.
The paper also explained that Stephen Donnelly, despite the chaos and many failings in the health service for which he is accountable, had made abortion provision one of his “main priorities”.
That’s pretty telling, isn’t it? We’ve learned since the Budget that HSE has announced “a freeze on the recruitment of junior doctors, healthcare assistants, home helps and other frontline staff due to financial constraints” – and the Minister is obliged to make savings of more than €600 million in health spending next year.
The Irish Medical Organisation described the cuts and the freeze as dangerous, saying it would “add to the chaos” in the health service and would have a negative impact on patient care.
Yet the Minister seems to have endless time and cash for abortion. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.
Imagine, at a time when Irish children are still waiting years for scoliosis procedures (a problem the former Health Minister promised would be solved by 2017), when, according to the latest figures, we have over 476,400 people on active waiting lists in this country waiting longer than the Sláintecare maximum wait time, when there is overwhelming pressure on emergency departments, one of the Minister’s “main priorities” is abortion – the ending of a life.
Consider that when we are confronted with an EU report stating that Ireland is the hardest place across all Member States to access mental health support and help, abortion continues to be a primary focus for the lame duck Minister, who has overseen the spending of tens of millions of euros on abortion while we’re being told to expect funding cuts for cancer services, maternity strategies, and new drugs.
In the last year, we have tragically witnessed people dying on trolleys in major Irish hospitals, while such serious shortcomings in our health service has become a sad and familiar reality in an Ireland which prides itself on being advanced and modern and compassionate. A&E departments in this country have been likened to “cattle markets,” while there appears to be a failure on the part of the media to hold the government and ministers to account.
No-one seems to be held responsible for the shambles that is Ireland’s national health service, and the Minister’s trumpeting about wider abortion access is a handy deflection for his inability to bring ongoing issues under control.
He’ll get nothing bur praise from most of the campaigning media who are only to happy that the Minister has ticked one of their boxes in terms of the their relentless support for abortion.
Our Health Ministers come across as abortion-obsessives, from Simon Harris’s endless tweets about the issue, to ruling out humane measures to grant pain relief for unborn babies in late term abortion.
His replacement, Stephen Donnelly is also pumping millions into abortion expansion, and has introduced a ‘Safe Access Zones’ Bill on the basis of unfounded claims that women are being harassed and targeted at abortion centres.
In truth, the Bill is about clamping down and outlawing any individual and public dissent to a government abortion regime which continues to oversee an escalating number of abortions – when voters were bought over with the government’s ‘safe, legal and rare’ phrasing of 2018.
Our own public health agency spent close to €1 million of taxpayers’ money in the last four years alone to ensure that its My Options pregnancy hotline, which directs women to abortion, was prominent ahead of pregnancy care centres in online search engine rankings.
Despite there being over 400 GPs across the country providing abortion pills, that number is not acceptable to Stephen Donnelly, who has told the Dáil that he is working to increase that number.
Indeed, all 19 of Ireland’s hospitals must provide abortions, according to Donnelly, who has said the situation of having any hospitals as outliers is “not acceptable to me” after unveiling the abortion review.
Curious, isn’t it, that although one of the many crises facing the HSE is the severe lack of hospital consultants – with an estimated 900 roles either vacant or filled on a temporary basis at last count, a situation causing increased risk to patients and staff burnout – the Minister was able to put in the effort to find consultants who are willing to perform abortions.
There’s another question here too:
But Donnelly is determined, it seems, not to listen to those pro-life doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals across the country, who are, according to prominent Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Dr Trevor Hayes, willing to leave medicine rather than perform abortions. He told thousands of people at Dublin’s Rally for Life this summer that the review process was used as an attempt to bully pro-life healthcare professionals,
“We are told that doctors and nurses should be informed at interview that contracts of employment will specify that it is mandatory to carry out abortions when requested – and that they would be fired if they refused,” Dr Hayes pointed out.
He rightly posed the important question: “At a time when our maternal health care services are stretched to breaking point, does the Minister think a bullying tactic like this is going to work?”
“Does he think that the public would agree with the contention that badly-needed doctors and nurses will be fired if they won’t carry out abortions? The answer is obvious. They would not,” the consultant obstetrician added.
He said that such a path would be “wholly discriminatory and entirely unethical” – and would drive many excellent medical professionals away from the health service. The reality, as Dr Hayes highlighted. is that the vast majority of Irish doctors do not carry out abortions, nor do they want to.
Minister Donnelly may feel that at present, he only wants to listen to abortion campaigners, and not to dissenting voices, but the truth is that there will come a time, as we approach another record-breaking year of abortions under repeal, that people in Ireland will realise that we are aborting our future.
They will realise too that there has been an obsession with painting pro-lifers as radical and out of step, but the extremism has been on the part of our government, who continue to obsess over increasing abortion access at a time when Ireland is facing a demographic crisis due to our own falling fertility rates and when the health service in general is in chaos.
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Whilst actual christian govts/societies such as in Hungary provide tax incentives to have children and maintain the nuclear family, the globalist infested cess pit of woke neo marxist culture that is Ireland, promotes and State funds the pseudo reality trans movement (ie the indoctrination of children into a cult that removes their ability to have children), the destruction of the nuclear family and celebrates and funds the State sponsored destruction of Irish children in utero. All the while importing foreign nationals and their large families of children……………the Irish State is the enemy of the preservation of Irish people, its culture and heritage #AbortAndImport #Replacement
Ireland is being ethnically cleansed by discrimination against the Irish in Housing,Health ,Education and Employment opportunities.
This results in our young talented youth emigrating abroad in search of a future..
Demographics of a Nation is the Destiny of a Nation
Our low birthrate of 1,6/family, indicates that the Irish will be a minority in their Homeland in 20 years.
Mass Migration and abortion are all part of the Plan to displace us.
Hence the Regimes priorities of weaponised Covid19 biowarfare Injection, Mass Migration and abortion.
We are being culled.
An Absolute disgrace. We never voted for this.
Abortion is NOT a form of birth control you plonker
Who even voted for that fella? He has all services cut below the bone. Waiting lists everywhere, people dying on trolleys, 900 consultant posts either vacant or with a temp. Some of the ‘refugee’ Ukrainians even go ‘home’ for their medical needs now. Our country is a shambles. Mass immigration and mass abortion are all we got from this government. They have promoted both, against our wishes. Donnelly has turned his back on the health service and is running all into the ground to back his abortion regime. For him, the abortion count can never be high enough. All without foetal pain relief anaesthetic, even in late term abortions. There should be protests outside the Dáil against this abortion cheerleader and the running down of our health service. Money must be put into essential services.
That’s a bit rich coming from a buck eejit who thinks it would be grand to have an MI5 officer head the Irish intelligence services.
People in glass houses Jack
Intelligence service not police service. I’ve already told you I will not engage in a debate over such a ridiculous proposition.
You believe it’s racist to think a non-national should not be head of state intelligence…… yet again the definition of racism is being stretched beyond it’s actual meaning.
Also, are you allowed out of the house alone without somebody with you at all times?
Ireland does have a dedicated intelligence service – not many people know about it because it’s a secret
C2 Army intelligence.
Ireland is the national home of the Irish.
Because they will spy on us you cretin.
Why is evidence required.
Would Israel hire an Arab to head any of its intelligence service?
Common sense sweetie.
Yea can you imagine an Irishman as head of MI5? No, neither can I.
We know what the health budget is and we also know that it is being wasted by ideologically driven incompetent gobshites. Go and look at the A&E in any Irish hospital and you will see copious evidence of that failure. We had a better service 50 years ago. There were no waiting lists. No A&E 36 hour delays. They are spending far more now and delivering a much inferior service.
A baby is a gift from God, I don’t know how he sleeps at night, they have completely lost all morality, talk about hate your own. The idea is I assume that raising children is an expensive business for the state much easier to bring in adults from anywhere else to do the work; they might out that these people are not such willing slaves as they think.
Legislation doesn’t mean to have to make that the first choice.
Perhaps they are in thrall to another deity. Or just lost and confused.
He sounds like an NI loyalist to me.
With this minister in charge of the health service does it really matter who becomes head of intelligence. What else is left to be destroyed in this country?
What the fuck are you muttering about?
In your own head.
Who gives a fuck about your points or proofs?
You couldn’t even state what your point was let alone prove it.
Your point being that you are on here quite a lot proves you are an idiot?
You are obviously not Christina. Look up the doctrine of “free will”.
6666 BABIES WOULD BE – 4 YEARS OLD – THIS YEAR !!!
They’re all DEAD NOW, they wont be coming back .
The repealers drank their champagne, laughed and joked as they gathered in Dublin Castle,
It was just a big game to them but a DEATH sentence for thousands of babies who will never see the world.
I have four kids, starting in college. I was completely broke, worked two jobs to scrap by and they are the best thing to ever happen to me. There may be extreme circumstances when abortion is necessary but many abortions are made as a lifestyle choice. Governments of Ireland have always been disgracefully poor at addressing healthcare but these clowns are by far the worst.
I wonder how many of those abortions were carried out by NI women. Travelling to the Rep would be much simpler than going to Britain don’t you think?
Of course you don’t know. Of course you are not sure. You don’t really have a clue do you?
You confess to not knowing what is going on in the deranged mind of a person who was brainwashed at birth about a sky fairy when you are the only person to deploy that term or introduce it into the conversation?
Sure. You super mind is greater than God’s Whatever would we have done if you had not been born?