Results 3,361-3,380 of 4,465 for speaker:Jim Walsh
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: From reports I have come across on foetal pain, it is happening earlier than the 24 weeks indicated by the Minister of State yesterday. I would like to refer him to a report by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in England, which strongly recommends that women should routinely be offered pain relief during surgical operations. It is part of their recommendations that this...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: The point of order is very clear. Yesterday evening we passed a Bill that legitimises all the procedures of operation that were described as so disgusting and barbaric when I quoted medical doctors who gave this evidence in open session in the US Congress. We legalised that yesterday, so what the Senator says is incorrect.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: This from a man who says he does not interrupt.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Under Standing Orders, I am allowed to make an intervention if the person in possession permits me to do so.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Guidance from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recommends that babies over-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: -----23 weeks who survive abortion should have their hearts stopped by lethal injection-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: -----but that this can be a difficult procedure for doctors.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said that and I wanted to point it out in support of Senator Healy Eames and in answer to-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: -----the Minister of State's question.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: When the baby dies.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Not true.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I move amendment No. 12: In page 10, to delete lines 4 to 39.This goes to the core of the Bill. The Minister of State pointed out that we are against the substantive issue of section 9, and that is true. We have made no secret of that. However, that does not mean that issues such as foetal pain and trying to confine the procedures that are allowed for abortion should not been have...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Once we bring it in with the suicide clause, it will open the door. This has happened in every country. The number of procedures carried out is in the order of 600 million in four countries, namely China, the United States, Britain and India. If one accounts for the rest of the world, the number is in excess of 1 billion. I could give statistics from many countries. A document I saw...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I know the Senator does not want to hear the hard facts but I would like her to listen to them and, perhaps, re-examine her conscience. A total of 66 infants survived NHS termination attempts in one year alone. Rather than dying at birth, as intended, they were able to breathe unaided. Approximately half were alive for an hour while one survived for ten hours. Once born, no medical help...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: May I be allowed to continue without disruption?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: These deformities may be corrected during childhood. The findings follow evidence to MPs this week that foetuses feel pain before 24 weeks.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am sticking exactly to it. Women will feel suicidal when, in fact, through the modern techniques of ultrasound-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: -----they will feel suicidal when they are told and many will actually obtain abortions under these headings because of that. A baby born alive after a botched abortion at 21 weeks is among the worst cases reported in Britain. A little girl with Down's syndrome lived for three hours after being delivered.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Her parents claim they were coerced into a termination by staff at Macclesfield District General Hospital. The 44-year-old mother said: If I had been given any idea that the baby would be born alive after an abortion I would never have gone through with it. They coerced me.Coercion is a huge factor.