John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The bishops have every right to express their views on the proposed legislation but I will take up the Tánaiste on the terminology he used with respect to respectfully disagreeing. Many Deputies believe in the pro-choice approach or want to back the Government on the legislation but they are not respected by the pro-life crowd. The point I am making concerns when people come to our doors after midnight to intimidate and to threaten and when there is no utterance from the Catholic Church to condemn this intimidation. Some 75% of the people in Ireland agree with the legislation, no matter how flawed I or others think it is. This intimidation is still going on and it is not democracy. As legislators, we are elected to do what we think is right, irrespective of our disagreements with one other.

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