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Irish Dominican Group Defends UN Abortion Report Stance : 26th Aug 08
A group run by the Irish Dominican Order has insisted that they do not support a call to legalise abortion in Ireland despite the fact that they are listed as endorsing a report calling for the move. The Dominican Justice Office (DJO), a joint initiative of the Dominican Sisters and Friars, is the only religious body on the endorsement list of the UN report on Ireland’s obligations under the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The report calls on the Government to “provide a legislative framework for the provision of safe and legal abortion in Ireland”.
However, Marian Tannam, co-ordinator of the DJO told The Irish Catholic, “The Dominican Justice Office in no way endorses the recommendation that the State should provide a legislative framework for the provision of safe and legal abortions in Ireland and this was made clear to the authors by our making it a specific condition that a waiver be included."
The resultant disclaimer which appears at the front of the report states: ‘The views expressed in the report do not necessarily reflect the policies and positions of each of the endorsing organisations.’
" Our decision to endorse the Shadow Report to the Third Periodic Report on Ireland under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was made in support of the many excellent recommendations on Human Rights and the overall thrust of the report in terms of social justice.”
The report also insists that the Irish Government should introduce gay marriage. “The right to marry should be extended and no difference in the treatment should exist between opposite-sex and same-sex couples”, it recommends. The document, prepared by the Irish Council of Civil Liberties (ICCL), is also endorsed by the pro-abortion Irish Family Planning Association and other similarily-minded organisations. The Irish Catholic. July 17.
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