Friday, October 26, 2001
Abortion News
Neal Horsley, the American antiabortion activist who operates the antiabortion Web sites "The Christian Gallery" and "Abortioncams," is going international and will post online the names and addresses of abortion providers in foreign countries, the Irish Times reports (Anderson, Irish Times, 10/22). Horsley's Abortioncams Web site contains a link to the Nuremberg Files, a Web site containing a list of the names of U.S. abortion providers and the states in which they operate. There is also a link to a list of several abortion providers in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, with categories set up to include names of providers in Ireland and France. The list includes the names, pictures and addresses of the abortion providers in the various countries (Abortioncams Web site, 10/25). The section for "Irish Blood Flunkies" is currently empty, but Horsley said that he has "received information from a number of Irish people and is deciding on his strategy for Ireland at the moment" (Irish Times, 10/22). Ireland's constitution prohibits abortion, but the law became "unclear" when a 1992 Irish Supreme Court ruling upheld the right of a raped teen to have an abortion where there was "a real and substantial risk" to the woman. To clarify the court's ruling, the Irish Legislature is currently debating a bill, which will go to a referendum if passed, that would allow legal abortion only in cases where the risk posed to the woman's life is from physical factors, effectively excluding the threat of suicide as a justification for abortion (Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report, 10/3). Horsley does not object to abortion in such instances, stating that "human beings have the right to self-defense, otherwise the right of the unborn's right to life is negated" (Irish Times, 10/22).
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