{"id":195674,"date":"2019-02-04T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=195674"},"modified":"2019-02-04T00:33:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T06:33:41","slug":"pro-life-muslim-doctors-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-muslim-doctors-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life Muslim doctors may thwart Ireland’s pro-abortion agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ireland\u2019s attempt to fast-track abortions in all hospitals since the December passage of the country\u2019s first law permitting abortions has been stymied because of an unforeseen problem: pro-life Muslim doctors. While Muslims make up just over 1% of Ireland\u2019s population, they constitute a significant proportion of doctors in the country. According to the Pew Research Center<\/a>, Muslims in Ireland are on average more highly educated than anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n

A dependence on predominantly Muslim doctors is already hindering Cavan General Hospital from providing abortions. Cavan\u2019s local paper has reported<\/a> that only one GP in County Cavan has signed up to provide medical, first trimester abortions, and that none in its three neighboring counties have.\u00a0Spokesman for the Islamic Culture Centre in the the south Dublin suburb Clonskeagh, Dr. Ali Selim, asserted that abortion is contrary to fundamental Islamic tenets, according to the Irish Catholic<\/a>: \u201cIn Islam abortion is the lesser harm, conducted only to save the mother\u2019s life if all other options prove to be useless. Life is God\u2019s gift.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pro-life Muslim doctors are sabotaging Ireland\u2019s plan to roll out a national abortion program. ? https:\/\/t.co\/Yqbn1DKbtr<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeremy McLellan (@JeremyMcLellan) January 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n