{"id":294319,"date":"2023-07-07T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=294319"},"modified":"2023-07-07T00:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:23:31","slug":"ireland-rally-life-dublin-10000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ireland-rally-life-dublin-10000\/","title":{"rendered":"All Ireland Rally for Life in Dublin draws 10,000 participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Over 10,000 people converged in Dublin this past Saturday for the All Ireland Rally for Life. Participants were particularly marching to &#8220;hold the government to account for the spiraling abortion rate\u201d as well as to call the government to uphold the mandatory three-day waiting period for women who want abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion was legalized in the nation in 2018, and recent reports show that the country&#8217;s number of abortions reached an <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ireland-abortions-all-time-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-time high<\/a> in 2022, with one baby aborted for every seven born. Though abortion supporters initially promised to limit abortion to 12 weeks, a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ireland-pro-abortion-report-without-penalty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three-year review<\/a> recommended scrapping penalties for committing abortions after 12 weeks as well as removing the three-day period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAllirelandrallyforlife%2Fposts%2F10159476446739150&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"744\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now know that the abortion numbers jumped 22% last year,\u201d Rally for Life spokeswoman Megan N\u00ed Sceall\u00e1in <a href=\"https:\/\/rallyforlife.net\/dublin-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cThere were 8,156 abortions in 2022 \u2013 up from an estimated\u00a06,700 the previous year. This rise is both steep and deeply disturbing \u2013 and it\u2019s also heartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing calls for the 3-day wait before abortion to be scrapped \u2013 even though about 4,000 women between 2019-2022 did not return for an abortion after the 3 day period of reflection,\u201d she added. \u201cWhy would anyone want to increase the number of abortions? Why not give women time to think \u2013 and help women to have their babies instead?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S-lQOooYAs8\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Kevin Doran, chair of the Bishops\u2019 Council for Life in Ireland, <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicherald.co.uk\/thousands-attend-rally-for-life-in-dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strongly condemned<\/a> abortion in a mass held before the rally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent review on the operation of the Termination of Pregnancy Act is a good example of how the truth is often the first victim of abortion,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the first place, this was not a review of the Act in itself, but only a review of how it operates.\u00a0 In other words, the Government was not interested in what people thought about abortion.\u00a0 All they wanted was to establish whether the act was effective in what it set out to do, namely ending the lives of unborn babies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also called attention to the importance of the three-day waiting period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of the three days between the certification by the doctor and the actual abortion, was to provide a window of opportunity for a woman to consider the decision she is about to make and to explore whether she might have other options,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to HSE figures, large numbers of women (27 percent) do not return after the three days, indicating that over a quarter of women change their minds for one reason or another.\u00a0 The three-day waiting period works, not only to save babies but to save women from a decision that they may regret for the rest of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/target-petition\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=lan_website&amp;utm_content=target_petition\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-292702\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Target petition\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-500x129.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 10,000 people converged in Dublin this past Saturday for the All Ireland Rally for Life. Participants were particularly marching to &#8220;hold the government to account for the spiraling abortion rate\u201d as well as to call the government to uphold the mandatory three-day waiting period for women who want abortion. 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