THE IRISH TIMES TOTALLY FALSE ABORTION STORY

The inquiry has been held, and the Irish Times’ infamous ‘first Irish abortion’ story has been shown to be totally and utterly false. Journalist Paul Cullen and his employers at the national broadsheet have disgraced themselves, once again, by their decision to splash a piece of pro-abortion propaganda across the front pages in a cynical attempt to exalt Fine Gael’s abortion legislation – only for that propaganda to be exposed as a lame piece of fiction in less than 24 hours.

Cullen, who together with Kitty Holland “broke” the story of Savita Halappanavar in the same newspaper in 2012, is not solely to blame however as this hogwash abortion story was clearly given two thumbs up by his editor, and most likely whatever legal filter they have at the Irish Times.

Here is the background: On August 23rd 2013, just a few weeks following the passing of the Irish abortion legislation, an article appeared on the front page of the Irish Times which blazed the headline, “First abortion carried out under new abortion legislation”. The sub heading read “Case similar to that of Savita Halappanavar” and the went on to describe a case of a woman who was pregnant with twins at 18 weeks and who had developed signs of infection, as did Savita.

However, the Irish Times alleged, in contrast to Savita’s case, this woman had undergone a termination of pregnancy at the National Maternity Hospital under the new abortion legislation and her life had been saved. It was suggested that had this legislation been in place at the time of Savita’s death then perhaps her life too would have been saved. The article named known abortion rights advocates Drs Peter Boylan and Rhona O’Mahony and said that they had both sanctioned the termination. So far, it seemed like the usual Irish Times abortion obsession. But this time their OCD for telling abortion lies would come back to haunt them.

On the very same day the article had been printed, the Department of Health released a memo saying that the new abortion legislation had in fact not yet been enacted. So the doctors involved in this story were practicing under the very same laws and guidelines that they had relied on for years, including in October 2012 when Savita Halappanvar was in University Hospital Galway with a septic miscarriage.

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