20.02.2011 Fine Gael issues official statement to Pro Life Campaign

20.02.2011 Fine Gael issues official statement to Pro Life Campaign

Official Statement from Fine Gael Party to Pro Life Campaign

Fine Gael is opposed to the legalisation of abortion.

Fine Gael will establish an all-party Oireachtas Committee, with access to medical and legal expertise, to consider the implications to the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights and to make recommendations. Such a process would, we believe, be the best way of examining the issues in a way that respects the range of sincerely-held views on this matter.

Fine Gael’s representatives will bring to the proposed all-party committee a clear commitment that women in pregnancy will receive whatever treatments are necessary to safeguard their lives, and that the duty of care to preserve the life of the baby will also be upheld.

Fine Gael is opposed to research conducted on human embryos, and favours alternative stem cell research that does not involve human embryos such as adult stem cell and umbilical cord research.

Fine Gael Campaign 2011 

17th February 2011

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