The Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution was approved in a Referendum over thirty years ago. It provides for the equal protection of both mother and her unborn child. In that time it has saved the lives of countless thousands of babies from being aborted.
The Eighth Amendment is under threat from extreme powerful forces, the aggressive progressives that we have been highlighting in our recent posts, who reside in foreign lands but who are aided by unrepresentative minorities within Ireland. The Irish Labour Party made abortion and the repeal of the Eighth Amendment a central plank of their election campaign in this year’s General Election. Indeed, they stated quite clearly that they were making the General Election a Referendum on abortion. They were wiped out in the election, with only seven TDs being elected. Previously they had thirty-three TDs and they were partners with Fine Gael in Government.