Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland
11:20 am
Reverend Christopher Jones:
There is huge confusion about terminology out there. I read in the newspapers yesterday about direct abortion, which is the deliberate destruction of human life. As Fr. Bartlett has pointed out, the situation where in treating the mother with every possible medical attention, a child dies, that is not abortion in our view. That must be clarified because there is confusion on this issue.
We do not need to legislate for abortion to protect women's lives. We do not need to legislate for abortion to satisfy the European Court of Human Rights. In our view, abortion is always morally wrong because it takes the human life; there must be another way.
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