Fine Gael TD: "My Husband And I Were Told Our Child Had A Profound Defect"

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8 жыл бұрын

Dublin Bay South TD Kate O'Connell makes an extraordinary and emotional speech in the Dáil, recounting her and her husband's experience of their now five-year-old son's diagnosis of a profound defect during her pregnancy, and voicing her strong support for the repeal of the Eighth Amendment.
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@JohnSmith-sw6uv 5 жыл бұрын

She was mad for abortion, yet she's talking about her miracle child? I'm very confused!?

@jamesmurphy2017 4 жыл бұрын

She almost killed her own child but the 8th Amendment protected him. Other children have lost that protection.

@JohnSmith-sw6uv 5 жыл бұрын

Her whole statement is a paradox

@JohnSmith-sw6uv 5 жыл бұрын

So why in gods is so mad for abortion?

@JohnSmith-sw6uv 5 жыл бұрын

And the Oscar goes too!

@jamesmurphy2017 6 жыл бұрын

This woman nearly killed her own child. The fatal foetal abnormality her child was diagnosed with never materialised. She has a healthy son now and cannot see the irony of campaigning for abortion rights when the eight amendment saved her child' s life.

@michaelheery6303 4 жыл бұрын

why she telling the whole world..

@Lisa-ih7fk 6 жыл бұрын

The sad cases of still births or babies who don't live longer than a couple hours due to fatal fetal abnormalities does excuse not abortions carried out on healthy pregnancies (which is the most common in the UK) Allow doctors the right to freely practice abortion on strictly medical grounds (risk of health or life of the mother) but no abortion on demand. Life is valuable and removing all rights from an unborn baby is a sign of a broken society

@westbrit1020 6 жыл бұрын

That seems were I am coming to which means removing the 8th , but it now looks as if that will lead to abortion on demand . The vote should have been repeal and then making the matter one for medical ethics and I thought that was Leo and FG's position on the whole , but now it's far from clear

@Lisa-ih7fk 6 жыл бұрын

west brit ya that's what I'd hoped they'd have done. The 8th is too strict but they've gone crazy now and are asking us to allow abortion on demand up to 3 months and the complete removal of the right to life from the constitution, in place giving complete authority to the government to decide if those 12 weeks should be increased or not. FG flip flop all the time, I don't trust that they won't increase it to 20 weeks in a few years

@adolynch 4 жыл бұрын

So she had complications,,, then said she has a now healthy child. Basically what I took from this is she would have aborted if she was allowed. Bet her 5yr old would love to watch this video

@themadfarmer5207 Жыл бұрын

Hard to understand what point KOC is trying to make. Someone here asks why is she telling the whole world. It is now fashionable to tell the whole world My miscarriage, my sti, my ivf my mental breakdown, my Doctor. My psychological trauma.. used to have respect for KOC but fock this nonsense