Results 3,321-3,340 of 4,465 for speaker:Jim Walsh
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I have no intention of sanitising my language on any Stage of the debate so as to facilitate the passage of horrific practices into law. I make no apology for describing them as barbaric. I wish to test the Minister on what he told us, having conferred with Holles Street. If what the institute claims is correct, namely, that current medical practice is all that we would be allowing, will...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: No.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am extremely disappointed with the Minister's response but I am not surprised as it is consistent with the manner in which the Bill was drafted. First, it totally ignored all of the professional evidence presented over six days of health committee hearings. Second, a significant number of amendments were tabled in the Dáil but they have been ignored. Third, we have only reached the...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: The industry that I am talking about today is worse.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: The abortion industry is evil. All one has to do, when the industry is uncontrolled, is look at what happened in the Gosnell case. Can anybody here raise his or her hand to say that Gosnell was a paragon of virtue and he or she supports his practices?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I accept that. I do not think that anybody would.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: There are other minor Gosnells who operate in the same way and deal in the abortion procedures which I described here and, I admit, do not take place in Ireland.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: The Bill allows all of those procedures because they are simply not circumscribed. I want to put the following on the record, I did it the last day, I did it during the health committee hearings and I would do it again. I agree with Senator Colm Burke that there is a great commitment to the life of the mother and the baby here. We have a proud tradition in the two patient model that...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I report progress.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I welcome the Minister of State but I am disappointed that we had to break for one and a half hours, which took away from the time we have to debate these important issues. When we adjourned I was speaking to the amendment and particularly the term "shall be in accordance with current medical practice". It specifically refers to "current" rather than existing medical practice, so when the...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: They were not Irish doctors but Irish doctors are no different-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: -----to doctors anywhere else. The problem is once the medical profession is corrupted by targeting innocent life and asking professionals to carry out such action, the ethos of medicine is changed. There was a comment from Senator Burke to the effect that at 24 weeks, a baby has a good chance of survival. I do not know what the Senator would describe as "good" as the evidence given at the...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Yes.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Does the Acting Chairman know what is the medical procedure?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: The medical procedure is the abortion procedure, which targets the life of the unborn baby. I am referring to two experts in the field, each one coming from a different perspective on the fundamental issue of either being pro-choice or pro-life. I am referring to their conclusion. It challenges all of us but particularly those who are pro-choice, as to where they stand on the spectrum....
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am asking Senators-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am laying down a personal challenge to the Senators opposite. While I know some of them do not have any difficulty with all these procedures being legalised, my guess is that many of them have serious qualms of conscience on this issue.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Yes, and I am pressing the amendment.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I move amendment No. 3: In page 7, lines 19 and 20, to delete all words from and including “or” in line 19 down to and including “2004” in line 20 and substitute “or any institution listed in the Schedule”.On Committee Stage I proposed the deletion of the same part I propose for deletion in this amendment. The Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen...