Seanad debates

Thursday, 29 November 2007

11:00 am

Photo of John Gerard HanafinJohn Gerard Hanafin (Fianna Fail)

To illuminate a previous point made in connection with CURA, the Positive Options leaflet includes details about CURA but CURA does not hand out this leaflet. If a lady who wishes to have an abortion comes to CURA, it refers her to a doctor and not to an abortion referral agency. That is the current situation, as I confirmed this morning, and I do not see any change in that.

A call was made this morning for certain services to be introduced. The services that were called for were abortion services. If we wish to have a debate on this matter, I would be happy to debate it because there is no stomach for abortion in this country. There may be an unwanted pregnancy but there is no such thing as an unwanted child. There are a couple of silent screams in the world, one of them being that of couples who cannot have children and who would love to adopt the children of girls who may not wish to have their baby. The least these girls could do is to allow the child to live. That is the ethos that is being spoken about and which I believe will continue in this country.

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