On Tuesday, Ireland AM presenters Muireann O’Connell and Tommy Bowe joked and laughed about the abortion issue on their morning show with studio guest, comedian Katie Boyle, who talked about her abortion experience in the US and how she’s using comedy to “break the stigma” surrounding the issue.
For a media outlet that routinely covers just one side of the abortion issue and ignores the voices of women who regret their abortions, Virgin Media no doubt sees it as the next logical step to joke and laugh about the issue. Unsurprisingly, the presenters never bothered to question the historical inaccuracies spread on the programme about Saint Brigid.
Regardless of how much they try to sanitise what happens in an abortion and make it out to be no big deal, the simple truth remains that every abortion ends the life of a unique and innocent unborn baby, and carries with it unbelievable heartbreak and remorse for many women.
With over 60,000 abortions performed in Ireland since the law changed in 2019 (when the 2024 figures are also included), it’s certainly no laughing matter. Behind those numbers are devastating stories, like the woman known to many of us in the pro-life movement who underwent a late-term abortion, heard her baby cry before he died, and has been unable to return to work ever since due to the trauma.
No matter how much Virgin Media might like to pretend otherwise, this is the true, stark undeniable reality of legalised abortion.
Watch clip from Ireland AM programme here
Awful behaviour on morning show
It is in very bad taste to promote abortion. . We forget babies suffer during abortion and in years to come women do suffer as well
This is a comment on modern Ireland. Katie Boyle even referred to a child! That a mother should joke and laugh with the presenters who chuckled at this tragedy is beyond reason. She will have that on her conscience for the rest of her life knowing she murdered her very own child (that is what her heart is telling her as much as she would like to wish it away). The presenters wont give a damn about her and her child. On the day of judgement she will meet that child and will have to explain.
By the way, St. Brigid could not have had an abortion as abortions could not have been done then.