A True Blistering Display Of Hypocrisy Witnessed In Dáil Éireann.

Politicians who condemn the deaths of children in Gaza, voted to strip protections from children at home, demonstrating a blistering display of hypocrisy.

The vote in Dáil Éireann exposed a stark and shameful contradiction at the heart of Irish political life. Parties and politicians who repeatedly condemn the killing of children in Gaza, and who speak in sweeping moral language about the sanctity of human life, were prepared to back legislation that would remove key safeguards for unborn children in Ireland.

The Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill, brought forward by People Before Profit, sought to abolish the three-day waiting period for abortion on request, permit access to abortion throughout pregnancy, and decriminalise abortion provision within the State.
The Bill was narrowly defeated by roll-call vote,73 votes to 71 votes. However, two senior female cabinet members Minister for Health Ms Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Minister for Foreign Affairs Ms Helen McEntee, together with Minister for Public Expenditure Mr Jack Chambers are understood to have voted in favour of the Bill.

Yet the vote revealed something the public cannot ignore: Sinn Féin, Labour, the Social Democrats and People Before Profit, alongside the above named senior government figures, were prepared to support a far-reaching removal of legal protections for the unborn, while continuing to posture as champions of children’s lives in other international conflicts.

This is not merely inconsistency. It is moral double-standards dressed up as compassion.
Time now to take a closer look at candidates before casting future votes.

When children die in Gaza, these parties demand outrage and action. But when asked to defend vulnerable life here at home, many of the same voices moved to weaken the last remaining vestiges of protections for unborn children and to expand abortion access in a way that opponents believe would normalise termination up to birth.

If the death of a child is a moral outrage in Gaza, then the destruction of a child’s life in Ireland cannot be treated as morally weightless simply because it happens quietly, clinically and behind a different set of political slogans.

Yes, time and space do matter in moments of crisis.

This is the core question Irish people deserve answered plainly:
How can politicians speak with absolute moral certainty about children’s lives overseas, while voting to diminish protections for children at home in Ireland?

The public are not completely stupid. Voters can see the selective empathy and the convenient moralising. If these parties truly believe every child matters, then that principle must apply consistently, not only when it is politically fashionable, safely distant, or useful for social media outrage.

We call on Sinn Féin, Labour, the Social Democrats, People Before Profit and some government ministers to explain their position honestly, without spin:

• Do they believe there should be any legal protection for unborn children?
• Do they accept any limit at all on abortion access.
• Do they recognise any moral weight in the life of the unborn child?

Until they answer clearly, their condemnations of the deaths of children in Gaza will ring hollow to many Irish people, not because Gaza does not matter, but because their proclaimed moral principles are being applied selectively without using rational, thus making them unfit to run this country.