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- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: The right to life is the most fundamental of all rights. It is the foundation of all other rights. No individual has a right to destroy life and no state has the right to undermine the right to life.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: I am speaking to all the amendments.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: I am here longer in this Oireachtas that any of the Senators.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: I have been around a while.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: We have the shortest serving Senator and the longest serving Member of the Oireachtas in the Chamber, and I welcome the Senator again.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: When I stand up to speak there is a general tendency to shout me down.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: Pardon?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: This is the kernel of the issue. My two colleagues have expressed many views in this House, which is what they were elected here to do. I am trying to put the other side of the coin. The fundamental issue in this debate is that the State, through the Minister and through members of the Fine Gael and Labour parties, is prepared to bring about a particular situation under section 9 and the...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: -----and give the Minister a last chance in that respect. He should let his conscience rise to the occasion-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: I will tell you-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: You might find in years to come-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: On the amendments-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: -----where is the right to life of that unborn child? Where does that unborn child go? Who will bear responsibility when that child is born and the mother, who had intended to commit suicide, decides not to commit suicide? The child is now born and the State must take responsibility.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: Of course I am. That is the basis for the entire Bill, and this is the key point. Every time I stand up the Senators opposite do not like what I say. It upsets them, and in years to come-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: I want to tell the Cathaoirleach something.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: In years to come the Senators in this House will regret the day they voted for this Bill.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: They will rue the day-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: -----because they will have been responsible for opening the floodgates and creating a situation-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: -----where the State will co-operate and collaborate on the abortion of children, and that is a fact.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Terry Leyden: I could go on.