UN Slams Ireland for Protecting Unborn Children, Says Abortion Ban is “Cruel and Inhuman”

The United Nations Human Rights Committee wants fewer humans to worry about in Ireland. This week, the committee put pressure on Ireland to legalize abortion, calling its current pro-life laws “degrading” and “cruel” to women, according to the New York Times. The laws in Ireland protect unborn babies from abortion beginning at the moment of conception, but they have come under continuous attacks by abortion activists. The country allows abortions when the mother’s life is at stake. The UN committee’s ruling specifically involved the case of an Irish woman named Amanda Mellet who wanted to abort her unborn baby because of congenital defects. According to the report, doctors said Mellet’s baby likely would die in the womb or shortly after birth. Rather than treasure the short time she had with her baby and allow him or her to die naturally, Mellet wanted to have her unborn baby killed in an abortion. Mellet said she suffered severe emotional and mental pain because Irish laws did not allow her to abort her child. Read more...