Critics Blast Amnesty International Anti-Catholic, Pro-Abortion Campaign
The rights advocacy group Amnesty International has launched a high-level campaign calling for the decriminalization of abortion in Ireland, a crusade critics are denouncing as disingenuous and anti-Catholic.
Amnesty has produced a video featuring the voice of Irish actor Liam Neeson, who refers to a “cruel ghost” which “haunts” Ireland. As eerie music plays, the camera pans overs a deserted church and Liam announces that this ghost “blindly brings suffering, even death, to the women whose lives it touches.”
The ghost, says Neeson, is “feared by politicians, this is the ghost of paper and ink. A spirit that lives in a constitution written for a different time. It is the shadow of a country we hoped we’d left behind. Ireland doesn’t have to be chained to its past. It’s time to lay this ghost to rest.”
The problem isn’t the Irish constitution, of course. Most of this “ghost of paper and ink” is perfectly acceptable. It is one small part of this ghost—the eighth amendment prohibiting abortion, to be precise—that must be exorcised.
The video concludes with Neeson, who voiced the Christ figure of Aslan in the Narnia movies, commanding “repeal the Eighth,” referring to the Amendment of the Irish Constitution that protects the life of the unborn child.
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Amnesty has produced a video featuring the voice of Irish actor Liam Neeson, who refers to a “cruel ghost” which “haunts” Ireland. As eerie music plays, the camera pans overs a deserted church and Liam announces that this ghost “blindly brings suffering, even death, to the women whose lives it touches.”
The ghost, says Neeson, is “feared by politicians, this is the ghost of paper and ink. A spirit that lives in a constitution written for a different time. It is the shadow of a country we hoped we’d left behind. Ireland doesn’t have to be chained to its past. It’s time to lay this ghost to rest.”
The problem isn’t the Irish constitution, of course. Most of this “ghost of paper and ink” is perfectly acceptable. It is one small part of this ghost—the eighth amendment prohibiting abortion, to be precise—that must be exorcised.
The video concludes with Neeson, who voiced the Christ figure of Aslan in the Narnia movies, commanding “repeal the Eighth,” referring to the Amendment of the Irish Constitution that protects the life of the unborn child.
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