Embryo ruling ‘a betrayal of the Irish people’

THE recent Supreme Court decision that the smallest and youngest members of the human family are not protected by Article 40.3.3 of the constitution is a betrayal of these most defenceless humans and of the Irish people.

In court the argument was made, unfortunately successfully, that the electorate of 1983, in voting to protect human life, did not include the embryo in vitro.

However, as someone who canvassed for the amendment I can assure the judges it was meant to protect all human beings “from conception to natural death”. This phrase was continuously repeated throughout the campaign.