Bríd is on the Dáil committee to consider the findings of the Citizen’s Assembley regarding REPEAL 8TH AMENDMENT. Dr Anthony McCarthy, a very clear and experienced psychiatrist working in maternity care responded to her questions and showed that the resources needed to implement the rediculous PLDPA are woefully inadequate. 8.11.17
I’m on the Dáil committee to consider the findings of the Citizen’s Assembley regarding REPEAL 8TH AMENDMENT. Yesterday, we had the opportunity to ask questions about the statistics available internationally and as far as possible, nationally, which was very helpful. If anyone would like a copy of the these stats, please get in touch. The clip is a bit ‘glitchy’, but you get the sense of it.
Press Release- Brid Smith, People Before Profit, 28/09/2017
People Before Profit TD, Brid Smith, has claimed Fine Gael are cowards for suggesting that they might not support the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly, because they feel its recommendations for the legalisation of abortion would not pass “party, Dáil or country” and would have to be significantly amended, as reported in the Irish Times. They believe that people are not in favour of choice.
The TD for Dublin South Central said: “For Fine Gael Ministers to come out with these remarks is a disgrace. I would like to remind FG that they are the ones who initiated the Citizens’ Assembly and hired the Red C polling company to randomly select 99 citizens to guide the Oireachtas. Fine Gael seem to be saying that the Citizens’ Assembly did not deliver the result that FG wanted so, therefore, they are going to ignore the Citizens’ Assembly. Read more »
Brid was on Newstalk today with Mattie McGrath and Colm Brophy FG. You might find the clips here interesting.The link below is to a audio recording .
NATIONAL MATERNITY HOSPITAL, CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY – DEBATE ON NEWSTALK 106 . Brid was on Newstalk today with Mattie McGrath and Colm Brophy FG. You might find the clips here interesting.
An interesting report from Holland on the Government’s latest dodge on addressing abortion in this country – the Ctizen’s Assembly. I was interviewed for this – my little snippet of Dutch stardom starts at 4.00 minutes into the film to 5.27 mins later
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