{"id":282678,"date":"2023-01-06T08:41:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=282678"},"modified":"2023-01-05T14:10:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T20:10:04","slug":"leading-irish-agency-calls-abortion-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/leading-irish-agency-calls-abortion-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Irish abortion agency calls 12-week limit ‘distressing,’ calls for abortion up to birth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), one of Ireland’s leading abortion agencies, is calling for the country to eliminate its law protecting preborn children from abortion after 12 weeks. Instead, it wants abortion available until birth.<\/p>\n

IFPA chief executive Niall Behan claimed the current limits are unfair to women.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to the rigid 12-week limit for abortion care, hospital referrals for pregnancies over 10 weeks can be intensely pressurized and very stressful for women, IFPA doctors, and hospital staff,” Behan said, according to Irish News<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cOur experience reflects World Health Organisation (WHO) guidance, which is clear that gestational limits cause harm and should be removed.”<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe also know from our specialist pregnancy counseling service that women are excluded from abortion care because of the 12-week limit.” Behan said. “Our counselors support women who are denied care in Ireland and forced to travel abroad for abortion services.\u00a0These women experience significant stress, distress, and stigma, as well as enduring the financial and logistical burdens of accessing healthcare in a different country. Forcing people to travel for abortion care is cruel and inhumane. It must stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

But despite efforts to completely ignore the human that is killed in an abortion, the D&E (dilation and evacuation) method, generally used to kill preborn children from 14-22 weeks gestation (beginning just after the first trimester), actively dismembers a living human being that has been able to feel pain since at least the end of the first trimester<\/a>, if not before<\/a>:<\/p>\n