Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

What does it say about this country that women can be accused of being killers and that posters can go up about a licence to kill and of foetuses that are able to speak? The Dáil and the Minister for Health should set the record straight. For example, a foetus at nine weeks is 0.9 of an inch and at 12 weeks is 2.13 of an inch. It says something about the fear of the Irish establishment in this country that it has allowed these laws to completely narrow political expression and political art in this way. We had a situation in the Dáil where a group of Deputies wore repeal jumpers and in jig time the committee ruled out the wearing of any political slogans. What do the Taoiseach and others think is so offensive about this image I am holding that it should be banned by a State body?

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