Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is the reason these amendments are so important, because if accepted, they provide the constitutional protection to the unborn that is not contained in this Bill. There is no other area of law in which a threat of suicide to one person is sufficient to deprive another person of his or her fundamental rights. It is baseless and disgraceful that one would treat suicide by removing the most basic rights of an unborn human being. It is not right to extinguish them but this is what is being done by this legislation. Are Members to abandon the principle of equality, about which so many on the Government side speak on a daily basis on the Order of Business or when defending the rights of persons with disabilities-----