Anger as group compares abortion to Holocaust

Cork householders have hit out at an anti-abortion group that has compared abortion to the Holocaust.

Leaflets criticising Jerry Buttimer, who chairs the Dáil committee hearing opinion on legislating for the X case, and likening abortion to the Holocaust, are being sent to Cork homes.

The leaflets were sent in suburbs of Cork city over the past three days. They show a picture of bodies piled up alongside a picture of an aborted foetus, and state: “The German people let this happen because they didn’t speak out. Are you and I going to let this happen?”

Maayan Yolzari, a Cork woman from a Jewish background, said: “This is a disgusting attempt to compare the new abortion legislation aimed at protecting women’s lives to the awful events of the Holocaust.

“As a Cork resident, I find this propaganda completely offensive.”

The group that sent the leaflets asks people to contact Mr Buttimer to express their viewpoint.

However, some recipients have mistakenly assumed that the leaflet had been delivered on Mr Buttimer’s behalf.

Mr Buttimer has refused to comment on any of the hate mail he has received since the Dáil committee began hearing expert opinion on proposed legislation to make the X case judgement into law.