Results 1,081-1,100 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: 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.
- 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: 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: When the baby dies.
- 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-----