Results 3,381-3,400 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: I am sticking to the amendment. I am seeking the deletion of section 9 and making no bones about it.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am raising this because suicide will-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: My amendment is to delete section 9. On the issue of suicide, many women in other countries have been advised to go down the suicidality route because it fast-tracks the abortion. It is the only mechanism in the Bill to facilitate abortion and, therefore, I believe it will be widely used. Therefore, I am seeking the deletion of the section. There are various risks attached to abortions for...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am not. I am actually talking about why I want the section deleted. I seek to have it deleted because of its effects on women. Women who will have abortions under this provision will suffer, as I outlined on Second Stage and as distorted in one of the daily newspapers last Friday. The article had no substance at all and what I said was misrepresented. The actual effects are identified...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am sticking to the amendment.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am sticking to the amendment. The Irish Constitution and procedures will have no effect once we pass this legislation because we are liberalising abortion.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: No, I am not.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am not.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: No. I have referred briefly to some of the things I said on Second Stage without going into any detail. The Cathaoirleach should allow me to conclude without interruption, if he does not mind.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am going to finish.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am seeking that this section be removed because it is a practice where women deny their natural role. Many for various reasons feel distressed and suicidal as a consequence of the distress they suffered. I recognise that that is a real situation, but abortion harms women, it does not actually cure their suicidal ideation.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: That is my point.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: As we have seen, women have died as a consequence of this.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Women suffer trauma as a consequence of having an abortion in these cases.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Even women who are suicidal-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: We know that women suffer post-abortion trauma because of guilt afterwards. That is medically proven.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am not.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Many women - and we have had examples of it - suffer not just increased mental illness as a consequence of abortion, which is what this is about, but in fact some become suicidal as a consequence and have actually committed suicide as a consequence of it. So I am asking the Minister, in the interests of these women,-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: -----what counselling and support systems will be put in place for these women who are going to have abortions. All the evidence we have to date is that there are no backup services. It is all very fine for the pseudo-liberals and pseudo-feminists to argue for the woman's right to choose.