During today's Order of Business in the Seanad several senators raised the issue of illegal and dangerous advice being offered by the IFPA under the Crisis Pregnancy Program. I have already blogged about the actual issue, it was originally exposed about a week and a half ago by Gemma O'Doherty in the Irish Independent. Several senators raised the subject yesterday during the Order of business. It was first raised by Senator Marc MacSharry who welcomed the proposed investigation. Of course he was barley finished speaking when the leading campaigner for abortion in Ireland and leader of the Labour Party in the Seanad (and serial failed Dáil candidate) Ivana Bacik stood to speak. She wanted to talk about non-taxpayer funded organizations, rogue organizations, as she likes to call them, that should be investigated. Perhaps she feels that a proper investigation would be diluted if others weer investigated. This is the oldest trick in the civil service book but Sir Humphrey she ain't. The next person to speak was Senator Rónán Mullen and despite several interruptions by human rights superstar and the real President of Ireland, Senator David Norris made the point that women's lives were endangered and Senator Bacik was trying to minimize that fact. Senator Norris in his usual histrionic manner was going on about impugning named people despite no actual people being named. Did I mention that he has a biography out about how he singlehandedly won human rights for all people?
There were many good contributions from quite a few senators. It would be unfair to name any more senators without mentioning them all but you can read the transcripts here. Other topics are covered too.
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