Ireland's May 25th Voters Deserve The Truth

The vote taking place May 25^th in Ireland will decide whether to keep the Constitutional Eighth amendment stating the unborn have a right to life. Abortion rights groups are going all out to repeal it, while pro-life groups are fighting to keep it. But what is abortion about?

The people of Ireland are being asked to change their constitution to allow for abortion. Abortion is described as a termination of a pregnancy, but that is a byproduct of what it does. Abortion is the surgical removal of a fetus. The people must decide if the fetus should lose her right to life because her mother does not want her.

What does an abortion look like?

No hard-nosed mainstream news reporter has done an undercover investigation of what goes on at abortion clinics. Doesn't the media want young women to see what abortion does--especially since women who might find themselves with an unplanned pregnancy deserve the right to make an informed choice?

There are no video recordings showing what the aborted fetus undergoes because no media outlets, no mainstream newspapers for example, have dug into the abortion industry, ever. Is there any reason other than mainstream media does not want young women to find out the real facts about abortion?

Those who wanted and got a vote on the Eighth never show us any video of what they are asking people to vote to allow either.

Abortion rights activists go to words instead of images for their agenda to be fulfilled. Their words paint pro-lifers as cruel men denying women abortion. Of course since the majority of pro-lifers are women, this is a little disingenuous. But words are weapons and this is what those who want to change social norms know. So how do they use words?

Amnesty International, an organization I once admired, is one example of this curious lack of curiosity about what actually happens during an abortion. Their website has a huge sign that states: “It's Time. Vote Yes.”

Yes to what exactly? Do they include a image of an aborted twelve-week-old fetus? I didn't see any. But they use plenty of words.

I will paraphrase the terms that are used by the writers at Amnesty International's website. Their viewpoint:

The Eighth Amendment is a violation of women's and girl's rights; no one under the age of 53 could vote in 1983 when the amendment was added; the Eighth is a risk to women's health, life, privacy, and equality; the Eighth is discrimination against women, is cruel to women and puts the life, health and well-being of every pregnant woman at risk.

Let's now look at the viewpoint of those wanting to keep the Eighth's protection of the unborn:

The Eighth Amendment protects the unborn's right to life since she is a unique being with her own DNA and therefore keeping the Eighth protects girls' rights; no one under the age of eighteen has ever voted about abortion rights even though the right to life affects every living human being; the fetus' right to privacy is violated when the fetus is ripped out of her mother's uterus; abortion discriminates against the very young; abortion is cruel to the fetus and puts her life, health and well-being at risk.

But words go only so far to explain something. I think just as people needed to see the images from the concentration camps after WWII to understand what occurred there, we need to see what abortion doctors are doing too. Perhaps it wouldn't matter in today's hardened world. Perhaps we have accepted killing. Yet, without the footage of a real abortion, people will continue to fall for sweet-sounding words like equality or privacy.

The easy part is to vote for abortion rights. The hard part is when women who choose abortion realize what abortion does. There are no soft words to change what abortion is.

Voting down and replacing the Eighth protections with abortion rights will mean Ireland swallowed a lie rather than demand the truth be shown, preferably with video footage.