Well, it was a landslide. Almost 70% of the voters in Ireland voted to repeal their 8th Amendment which had protected the life of an unborn child, and so disallowed abortion – except where the mother’s life was threatened. Parliament will now be responsible for writing new abortion legislation.
 
Apparently, like the majority of westerners these days, the Irish want their sex to be consequence-free. But reality doesn’t work that way. They’ll soon discover that abortion comes with lots of ugly consequences ~

We are not having enough babies to maintain current population ~

 
This story was just reported in the Independent-Irish News. Maybe they should have published it before the repeal referendum ~

Ireland is not producing enough children to maintain the population as it currently stands, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) says.
 
Women aged 15-49 are having an average of 1.8 children each, which is the second-highest birth rate in Europe after France, but 2.1 is considered the level at which the population would replace itself in the longer term.

Abortion and Breast Cancer: The Stubborn Link Returns ~

 
This is from a March 11, 2015 post. I wrote this: “The pro-choice crowd have for years tried to pretend there is no real correlation between the two, despite studies showing otherwise. New statistics are increasingly difficult to ignore.”
 
My second sentence was overly optimistic. The statistics are easy to ignore when the mainstreams refuse to report them. Nevertheless, facts are stubborn things ~

(T)he ABC (abortion-breast cancer) link is showing up, conspicuously, as millions of women worldwide who have had abortions over the past several decades are coming down with breast cancer at alarmingly increased rates. Dozens of papers are being published that show the trend.

Texas Lt. Gov: Abortion is part of ‘devaluing life’ that leads to school shootings ~

 
Pro-aborts will no doubt ruthlessly mock this Judeo-Christian view of the sanctity of life and abortion’s corrosive impact, but they can’t mock the numbers ~

On Sunday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick appeared on ABC News’ “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos to discuss the case. The two debated a number of topics, including the availability of guns and school security procedures, but Patrick’s central thesis was that the problem is rooted in America’s “culture of violence.”
“We have devalued life, whether it’s through abortion, whether it’s the breakup of families, through violent movies, and particularly violent video games,” Patrick said […]
 
“If we have created a culture, in the words of one Catholic Deacon Greg Kandra, where human life is treated like trash, what do we expect here?” The American Spectator’s Jeffrey Lord has asked. He notes that “Wikipedia lists eight years of mass shootings in the United States between 1929 and 1972. That is a span of 43 years. Roe v. Wade was issued in 1973. Between 1973 and 2017 — a span of 44 years — the site lists 39 years of mass killings in the United States.”

Women Who Abort Face 81-Percent Increase in Risk for Mental Health Problems, Study Shows ~

 
Grace Carr at The Stream recently shared this story which will never make it the network news ~

Women who have abortions are much more likely to suffer mental health issues when compared to their peers who have carried their pregnancies to term, the British Journal of Psychiatry study showed.
 
Substance use and suicidal behavior were the most common mental health illnesses that arose after abortions, according to the study. Women who aborted were twice as likely to commit suicide as women who carried their pregnancies to term.

Sadly, the Irish will now have to live with the tragic fallout from their misguided choice to repeal their abortion ban.

 
As Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action tweeted, “Tragic beyond words. This is how a civilization destroys itself.”
 
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Related:
Up-dated: 6-2-18 ~ Added ➡
5 Sad Predictions For Ireland In The Wake Of Its New Abortion Laws ~

1. More Moms Will Experience Mental and Emotional Pain
2. An Increase in Unintended Pregnancies
3. Medical Advancement and Care May Decrease
4. More Babies Will Die, Of Course
5. Ireland’s Culture Will Degrade Its Respect for Life
 
Devaluing life in all its stages, particularly that of the youngest and most defenseless among us, is not moral or joyful. As this act trickles down to other kinds of demoralizing laws, Ireland will soon discover, like the United States did long ago, it’s very hard to go back.

The Druids Return to Ireland
Irish People Take to the Streets to Celebrate a World With Fewer Irish People
Ireland: An Obituary ~

In his book How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill writes that “the Irish, who were just learning to read and write, took up the great labor of copying all of western literature,” thus becoming the “conduits through which the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian cultures were transmitted to the tribes of Europe, newly settled amid the rubble and ruined vineyards of the civilisation they had overwhelmed.” He praises the monks “who single-handedly re-founded European civilisation.”
 
Today’s generation has decided that civilization isn’t worth saving.