[Apologetics] Three Women Challenge Ireland's Pro-Life Abortion Laws in European Court

[Stephen Korsman]

Hi

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09042209.html

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Ireland ratified in 1992, acknowledges that "the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth."
The Irish government's submission also details how previous rulings from the human rights court demonstrate that there is no human right to abortion and that individual nations are entitled to grant full legal protection to the child in the womb.

In 2004 the Court of Human Rights recognized that a human embryo belonged to the human race, and in the following year, in another abortion case before the human rights court, lawyers for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) expressed the hope that this recognition would convince the Court that belonging to the human race was the basis of human rights.

Something sounds positive, after the other day's news article about the duty of senile people to die.  Interestingly, Dublin has two cathedrals, and both are for the Anglican communion [both Church of Ireland].  The Catholic Primate of Ireland, the Archbishop of Dublin, has to make do with a church, albeit a nice looking one, that has been designated a pro-cathedral, because the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, the officially designated cathedral, is under Church of Ireland control.  Also, the Primate of Ireland is the second most senior cleric in Ireland.  The most senior one is the Primate of All Ireland.  Perhaps they should consider calling the third senior cleric Primate of the Rest of Ireland.

God bless,
Stephen
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