DEMANDS OF FREE SPEECH RING HOLLOW GIVEN PAST RECORD ON ABORTION

Regardless of where you stand in the debate about same-sex marriage, there’s a very obvious irony in seeing abortion advocates like Ivana Bacik and Aodhán Ó Riordáin coming out with all guns blazing about free speech on this issue.

Bacik said last weekend that it was “important that we engage in this debate (on same-sex marriage)  in a fair and reasoned manner, that we don’t engage in a way that censors debate.”

She was joined by many other abortion advocates in condemning censorship and demanding free speech on this issue – yet all of these people were previously involved in calling for Youth Defence’s pro-life billboards to be censored.

Bacik went as far as to call for censorship of the pro-life adverts in the Senate – and Ó Riordáin attended a protest outside the Dáil demanding that Youth Defence’s billboards be banned.Bacik went as far as to call for censorship of the pro-life adverts in the Senate – and Ó Riordáin attended a protest outside the Dáil demanding that Youth Defence’s billboards be banned.

What a shower of hypocrites. One rule for them, another for anyone who disagrees with them.  Plus ça change