Dáil Rejects Pain Relief Bill

17.12.2021

As you will have read from our emails the Foetal Pain Relief bill was debated and voted on yesterday in Dáil Éireann. The bill introduced by Deputy Carol Nolan, sought to bring to an end the cruel practice of forcing a child to go through unnecessary pain in late term abortions.

The bill was also co-sponsored by other TDs, Peadar Tóibín, Peter Fitzpatrick, Noel Grealish, Éamon Ó Cuív, Seán Canney, Michael Collins, Richard O’Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Michael Healy-Rae and Mattie McGrath.

Sadly the Dáil rejected a second reading of the Bill yesterday evening, and a Government counter motion was passed by 107 votes to 36.

Deputy Carol Nolan had this to say. “It hasn’t come as a huge surprise though and we will certainly not be deterred by it. The bill we are putting forward is a measured and humane proposal. It simply seeks to ensure that unborn babies are given pain relief prior to late-term abortions,”

Aontú Leader, Peadar Tóibín remarked about the cruelty and lack of compassion to "completely ignore the humanity of these living individual human beings.”