Doctors for Life, Dr Therese Boyle, Dr Eleanor Corcoran, Dr Michael Cooke, Nurse Fiona Mc Hugh, Dr Brendan Crowley, Dr Ronan Cleary and Dr Janina Lyons (retired) who attended the Pro-Life Campaign conference on Saturday. Photo: John Mc Elroy. Staff Reporter
Never tire in the fight to “destroy” abortion, Dr Dermot Kearney told those who gathered for the Pro Life Campaign’s national conference.
The Irish doctor, who risked his career to offer abortion pill reversal treatments in the UK, said pro-lifers must “never tire of doing what is right”.
“Abortion must be destroyed,” Dr Kearney told the gathering in the RDS, November 12, receiving a standing ovation.
“The abortion industry is based on fear,” he continued, saying that “we have to counteract it with… honesty, courage and love”.
“Never tire of doing what is right and do it with charity and love,” Dr Kearney finished.
The conference was held the same day as the Government announced plans to make provision of the ‘at-home’ abortion pill a permanent feature.
Eilis Mulroy of the PLC called the decision “unconscionable”.
“In addition to the dangerous and unforeseen consequences for women’s health of allowing telemedicine abortion to continue, it is also linked to coercive abortion practices, something the HSE has acknowledged as a reality,” Ms Mulroy said at the conference.
The decision demonstrates the Government’s “cavalier disregard for women’s health and an utter refusal to take steps to end the frightful and degrading practice of coercive abortion”, she added.
Read Ruadhán Jones’ full article on the Pro-Life Campaign’s conference here.