A poll appeared in yesterday's Sunday Times. It appears to say something like 80% of Irish people want abortion introduced. Of course as usual you get the response you want when you ask the right question. The question itself was flawed, it asked if people would approve of abortion in the case where a woman's life is at risk. As I've blogged before Ireland is a very safe place for women to give birth. Our constitution recognizes that pregnant women have a right to medical care, that they have an equal right to life with their unborn child. In a case where medical attention would heal the mother but have the unintended side effect of harming the baby's the mother always gets the care she wants.
In a
statement the Pro Life Campaign's Dr Ruth Cullen puts it very clear:
This poll is fundamentally flawed and adds nothing to the debate because it fails to make the crucial distinction between necessary medical interventions in pregnancy to save the mother and induced abortion which targets the life of the unborn baby.
