In late June this year, the Oireachtas, Ireland’s Parliament, passed a bill permitting surrogacy, implying that homosexual and heterosexual couples and single men and women can legally ask surrogate mothers to bear children, both in Ireland and abroad. Couples from ireland can also look for surrogate mothers from a list of approved countries.
Fine Gael Senator Mary Seery Kearney expressed approval for the aforementioned legislation regulating domestic and international surrogacy.
“Crucially, this Bill also provides that the parents of those children already born via surrogacy can apply to the High Court for parental orders to secure their lifelong relationship with their children,” Kearney declared.
Moreover, Ireland witnessed an increase in nearly 20% of abortions, reaching a total of 10,033, in 2023 alone. As per statements from Ireland’s Department of Health and cited by GRIPT, only 21 abortions were performed last year “due to a risk to the life or health” of the woman.
Pro-life Laois Offaly TD Carol Nolan told the GRIPT site slammed Ireland’s high number of abortions, declaring Ireland is now facing an “epidemic” also due to an “under-promotion” of alternatives.
Besides promoting the wanton killing of unborn babies, the anti-life Irish Parliament (Oireachtas)’s “Committee on Assisted Dying” approved plans first suggested by by Trotskyist MP (TD) Gino Kenny in 2020 to usher in both euthanasia and assisted dying for the terminally ill.
“Thousands of women are being betrayed by the over-promotion of abortion as the only possible response to pregnancy in certain circumstances and the cruel under-promotion of life affirming alternatives. I will continue to shine a light on this issue so that women and families are fully supported with the kind of wrap-around service provision that will meaningfully assist them in choosing a different path beyond that of abortion,” Nolan lamented.
Moreover, pro-life group The Life Institute called for the government to seriously take note of Ireland’s rising abortion rates:
“We’re calling on the government to treat this matter as an emergency and set up a special task force to look at the shockingly high number of abortions and what can be done to tackle that and offer real options to women.”
In 2018, abortion up to 12 weeks was legalized in Ireland after a popular referendum.Since then, abortion rates in the country have snowballed by 250%, with 6666 abortions within the first full year after the law was passed. Before 2018. 2879 pregnant Irish women traveled to the United Kingdom (UK) to kill their unborn children before abortion up to 12 weeks was legalized.
Nonetheless, some anti-life Irish MPs even went so far as to block a bill facilitating pain relief for the unborn getting killed and going so far as to table new legislation to stop pro-life activists from gathering outside abortion clinics. In 2023, Ireland’s public health agency, the Health Services Executive (HSE), conceded that it had spent €1 million of taxpayers’ money in the last four years (dating back from 2023), further revealing the government’s anti-life agenda.
Besides promoting the wanton killing of unborn babies, the anti-life Irish Parliament (Oireachtas)’s “Committee on Assisted Dying” approved plans first suggested by by Trotskyist MP (TD) Gino Kenny in 2020 to usher in both euthanasia and assisted dying for the terminally ill. This move to legalize euthanasia further undermines what was once Catholic Ireland. Fortunately, some conservative voices, including that of Senator Ronan Mullen, who asked for clarification from the Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying, after it seemed to him that the Committee has ‘full freedom’ to make recommendations in favour of euthanasia or assisted suicide.
Progressive elites in the upper echelons of Irish society have been working to amend the Irish Constitution to redefine the concept of families, saying that families can be set up based on “on marriage or on other durable relationships,” such as cohabiting couples and their children.
“I welcome the clarification at this evening’s meeting that there is not such a predetermined outcome intended. I look forward now to a careful study by all members of the Committee of the international experience of euthanasia and assisted suicide, the risks which a change in the law would pose to the most vulnerable people in our society, and the wider social consequences of permitting one person to deliberately end, or aid in ending, the life of another,” Mullen said.
Progressive elites in the upper echelons of Irish society have been working to amend the Irish Constitution to redefine the concept of families, saying that families can be set up based on “on marriage or on other durable relationships,” such as cohabiting couples and their children. Previously, the traditional definition of “family” stated that marriage was the basis “on which the family is founded” and replace it with a clause that said families can be founded. Strikingly, critics of the family referendum acknowledged that the government’s redefinition of family would likely affect migration when it came to asylum seekers with multiple relationships.
Thanks be to God, Irish voters voted a resounding “no” to this vaguely-worded amendment, as well as to another proposed amendment that would ignore the role women have at homes.
In turn, the Catholic Family Solidarity group published a statement on the significance of the failed government referendum, declaring that “this vote stands as a critical moment in Irish history, marking the end of an era dominated by liberal conformity”. Adding, the Catholic Family Solidarity group stated:
“This victory is not just a rejection of a specific referendum proposal; it is a declaration by the people of Ireland that the core unit of society – the family based on marriage – must remain protected and cherished. It underscores a collective desire to maintain the integrity of societal values that have long been the bedrock of our nation.”
In a further dent to the concept of the traditional family and Catholic values, Ireland became the first country to legalize same-sex “marriages” by popular vote in 2015, despite the warnings of the country’s Catholic prelates against such unions. To boot, Ireland’s National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) for education tabled the introduction of classes that focus on gender and class ideologies like white privilege, male privilege, and gender identity. Students undergoing such indoctrination sessions in school are expected to emerge from it equipped to boost the LGBTQ agenda. Arguably, learning about “white privilege” will enable students to be less resistant to government housing policies that prioritize non-white or non-Irish migrants or refugees, despite the widespread problem of Irish homelessness. Never mind that Irish jobs may be lost, as long as migrants are well taken care of in hotels around the country, right?
Undoubtedly, the authoritarian approach of Ireland’s leftist government, especially in recent years, as can be seen by criminalization of public Mass attendance during the COVID-19 years, has also added fuel to the fire in further exacerbating the situation of Ireland’s already declining Catholicism owing to the influence of secularism, materialism and left-wing ideologies. Yet, the very fact that more Irish families are beginning to homeschool their children for various reasons, including keeping children away from the leftist ideologies in public schools, means that not all hope is lost for the Emerald Isle.
