Ireland is facing a referendum vote of huge import tomorrow, one that may alter the very soul of that nation. They’ll be deciding whether or not to legalize abortion.
 
One of just a handful of countries in Europe to protect the unborn, Ireland’s 8th constitutional amendment acknowledges that a human embryo is a unique individual with a right to life ~

“The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.”

 
National Review explains the implications of a repeal ~

Ireland’s government, most of its media class, and a number of NGOs are campaigning to erase the Eighth and allow the Dail to legislate to make abortion available. The law they are proposing to enact afterward is modeled on legislation found in the United Kingdom. It includes an unlimited right to terminate a pregnancy in the first twelve weeks of gestation, and then an expansive health exception that would effectively allow the termination of any pregnancy at any time.
 
The choice before the Irish people is not just to make abortion legal in Ireland, but to make it common there.

Standing in opposition to most of the world on the issue of abortion, and embracing the natural rights of the unborn, is a good thing. The Irish should be proud. Their pro-life stance is a residual effect of their once predominate Catholicism. This lingering culture of life sets Ireland apart from other western nations – in a positive way – as National Review points out ~

Ireland’s law against abortion has not produced the dystopia that pro-abortion activists conjure to gain consent. Ireland has one of the lowest gender-income gaps on earth, and it has outstanding statistics in maternal health. Although some Irish women who are determined to get an abortion do cross the Irish Sea to get one, the Eighth Amendment clearly lowers the rate of abortion overall, and Ireland stands in contrast to the rest of Western Europe, having consistently maintained a higher-than-replacement fertility rate. Irish people meet and interact with people whose lives were saved by the Eighth Amendment every single day.
 
Repeal of the Eighth will not end Ireland’s own version of the culture wars. In fact, it will come with a nasty backwash of secularism, as activists inevitably pressure religious health institutions to make the procedure more widely accessible, and demand that religious schools defend it as a social good. It will not exorcise the ghosts of Ireland’s sometimes unhappy past. It will not solve the problems of Irish society, as abortion is the most parsimonious and nasty thing a society can offer a woman as its all-purpose solution to a difficult pregnancy. Repealing the Eighth is a step backward on human rights.

Because there are really no good excuses for the indiscriminate termination of a pregnancy, the Left has been forced to resort to deception and subterfuge to promote abortion across the globe. One of their original and most potent lies – it’s just a blob of tissue – was exposed years ago thanks to ultrasound technology and other medical advances. We now know the heart of an embryo begins to beat at 3 weeks.
 
But how many Americans realize that the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the U.S. was based on a pack of lies? From Planned Parenthood – ironically-named, and founded by a libertine eugenicist – to using false statistics to sway public opinion, to the manipulation of Jane Roe (a penniless high school dropout named Norma Jane McCorvey who later became an ardent pro-life advocate) – the entire push for abortion was an unholy sham.

 
The pro-aborts in Ireland have been advancing a false narrative about the death of a pregnant Indian woman to garner support for their side ~ Ireland’s abortion lobby is lying about this pregnant woman’s death to push their cause ~

Critics say Savita Halappanavar’s 2012 death has been exploited by abortion activists to influence this week’s referendum that could impose abortion-on-demand on a historically pro-life country. Critics say Ireland’s abortion laws had nothing to do with Savita’s death.
 
Three official investigations found that Savita, 31, died of sepsis – a blood infection – caused by “extremely virulent bacteria,” E. coli ESBL. Under Ireland’s abortion laws, the woman would have been permitted an abortion had doctors realized how sick she was when she came to the hospital.
 
“First and foremost, this was a subsequent medical negligence case,” Ireland’s Lawyers for Life stated in a Facebook post last week. “This was well reported in the media at the time of the medical negligence court case.”

Even Google is helping promote the misinformation campaign. The tech giant, suddenly one of the self-appointed social arbiters of our Brave New World Order, is not only a huge proponent of abortion, apparently that’s the only position they’ll permit on their platform. As the Daily Signal reports ➡ How Google Put Pro-Lifers at Disadvantage in Ireland’s Upcoming Referendum. Subversive, without the obvious appearance of being so ~

Google shut down its platform to all campaigns despite knowing it would disproportionately harm the No (those opposed to repealing the 8th) campaign. Google had access to all the analytics from the advertisements on both sides. It knew exactly where each side would devote its resources and that the No side was stronger online.
 
To put all this into an American perspective, this is basically as if Google, two weeks from the midterm elections, decided it was going to ban all election ads after having been lobbied furiously to do so by one of the parties because that party suddenly realized it was losing the digital fight; announced it was doing so because it had concerns the mid-terms might be compromised; and then refused to answer any questions when people rightfully asked, “What do you mean our elections are compromised?”

John Sweeney at the Federalist rightly surmises what a repeal would mean ~

Repealing the Eighth Amendment will likely be the final nail in the coffin of the once deeply Catholic culture in Ireland. If the Irish people choose to sacrifice the rights of the unborn to the libertinism of the sexual revolution, they will have no more right to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day than the average American who chooses to honor the great saint by spending March 17 drinking green Miller Lite.

Please pray that Ireland makes the righteous decision for the right to life of the unborn tomorrow.
 
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Related:
Irish mothers accuse govt of exploiting them for abortion referendum ~ Exploiting the pain of parents whose children were born with disabilities/genetic abnormalities. Nothing is sacred to the secular progressives when they’ve got an agenda to advance ~

(P)arents of babies with life-limiting conditions or other disabilities have also been speaking out against legalising abortion in their name. Liz McDermott of One Day More made a powerful intervention during RTE’s last televised debate on the referendum last night, saying that abortion in these cases left no hope, just a dead child.
 
Niamh Ui Bhriain, from the Save the 8th campaign, said that the Yes Campaign are also exploiting other difficult cases to legalise abortion on demand. For example, the case of “Ms C” a 13 year old rape victim who was taken to England for an abortion, is often cited as a reason abortion is needed. Ms C has said that she was given the abortion, which she regrets every day, without her consent, and is calling for a No vote.