Here We Go Again
14/07/09 22:23 Filed in: Politics
| Lisbon
Treaty
Richard Greene - Yes vote on Lisbon
could open door for abortion - Irish Times, 14
July 2009
And so it starts again. The scaremongering, the bullshit, the blatant lies. Richard Greene absolutely outdid himself in today’s IT, with his claim that “a Yes vote on Lisbon could open the door for abortion.”
The chances of this happening are so remote that they don’t bear a second thought. Social issues like abortion have always been competencies of national parliaments, not the EU. If anything, the Lisbon Treaty actually increases the role of the national parliaments in overall EU decision-making.
Do Greene and his fellow travellers in Cóir (aka Youth Defence) honestly believe that there is a secret conspiracy in Brussels and Strasbourg to force Ireland to legalise abortion and euthanasia. I can see it now, a secret bunker under the European Commission building, staffed by faceless bureaucrats with James-Bond-baddie accents: “Ve vill make zeeze Irish comply vizz our orders, ja! Zey vill haff to haff abortion, and zen ve vill force zem to haff euss-in-asia as vell!!”
A yes vote on Lisbon is about as likely to open the door for abortion in Ireland as it is to open the door to Sharia Law in Ireland, or open the door for Ireland to be taken over by giant space ants.
Hang on, do we know what is our putative new insect overlords’ position on abortion?
And so it starts again. The scaremongering, the bullshit, the blatant lies. Richard Greene absolutely outdid himself in today’s IT, with his claim that “a Yes vote on Lisbon could open the door for abortion.”
The chances of this happening are so remote that they don’t bear a second thought. Social issues like abortion have always been competencies of national parliaments, not the EU. If anything, the Lisbon Treaty actually increases the role of the national parliaments in overall EU decision-making.
Do Greene and his fellow travellers in Cóir (aka Youth Defence) honestly believe that there is a secret conspiracy in Brussels and Strasbourg to force Ireland to legalise abortion and euthanasia. I can see it now, a secret bunker under the European Commission building, staffed by faceless bureaucrats with James-Bond-baddie accents: “Ve vill make zeeze Irish comply vizz our orders, ja! Zey vill haff to haff abortion, and zen ve vill force zem to haff euss-in-asia as vell!!”
A yes vote on Lisbon is about as likely to open the door for abortion in Ireland as it is to open the door to Sharia Law in Ireland, or open the door for Ireland to be taken over by giant space ants.
Hang on, do we know what is our putative new insect overlords’ position on abortion?