Labhrás Ó Murchú (Fianna Fail)

In recent months we heard a story from China which concerned the forced abortion of a seventh month old baby. This was done to comply with the law of the state. The story outraged the world and the people who brought that story to the world was the family of the woman and child in question. We salute that family from a human rights point of view, but the story has taken an unusual turn in the past couple of days. The family has had to go into hiding because they have been branded as unpatriotic for having spoken to the media. I hope we do not find ourselves in a similar position. I believe the majority of people in this State oppose abortion and I would not like to think that for some whim, we intend censoring those anti-abortion activists.