Laws Should Not Just Protect The Planned, The Privileged, The Perfect
Dr Anne Mc Closkey insists that intrauterine life is a continuum.
At night, when things quietened down there was time to just watch these wee scraps of humanity as they fought for their lives.
And fight they did. Even those of 23 or 24 weeks gestation, the weight of a bag of sugar, felt pain, hated being stabbed and poked, and although the endotracheal tube rendered them mute, they screamed silently. They hated needles and probes of all types, they loved being stroked and soothed, they yawned and stretched, smiled and frowned. They especially responded to their parents voices. Early behaviours and personality traits, parents used to tell us when they came back for the annual Christmas party, remained outside of the hospital.
That these small, totally dependent individuals are full members of the human family, imbued with human dignity, and deserving of all the rights and entitlements of any other person is self-evident.
Intrauterine life is a continuum, from the moment the mother becomes pregnant till her child is born. There can be no arbitrary cut-off at which it becomes expendable. Our laws should not just protect the planned, the privileged and the perfect, but all the children of the nation.
Anne Mc Closkey works as a GP in Derry. Lifelong republican and community activist, mother and grandmother, stood as Independent candidate in 2016 Assembly election, polling over 3k 1st preference votes, founder member of Cherish all the Children Equally, a republican progressive organisation founded to give pro-life socialists and Republicans a voice and to campaign against repeal of the constitutional right to life in 8th amendment.
At night, when things quietened down there was time to just watch these wee scraps of humanity as they fought for their lives.
And fight they did. Even those of 23 or 24 weeks gestation, the weight of a bag of sugar, felt pain, hated being stabbed and poked, and although the endotracheal tube rendered them mute, they screamed silently. They hated needles and probes of all types, they loved being stroked and soothed, they yawned and stretched, smiled and frowned. They especially responded to their parents voices. Early behaviours and personality traits, parents used to tell us when they came back for the annual Christmas party, remained outside of the hospital.
That these small, totally dependent individuals are full members of the human family, imbued with human dignity, and deserving of all the rights and entitlements of any other person is self-evident.
Intrauterine life is a continuum, from the moment the mother becomes pregnant till her child is born. There can be no arbitrary cut-off at which it becomes expendable. Our laws should not just protect the planned, the privileged and the perfect, but all the children of the nation.
Anne Mc Closkey works as a GP in Derry. Lifelong republican and community activist, mother and grandmother, stood as Independent candidate in 2016 Assembly election, polling over 3k 1st preference votes, founder member of Cherish all the Children Equally, a republican progressive organisation founded to give pro-life socialists and Republicans a voice and to campaign against repeal of the constitutional right to life in 8th amendment.
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