Losing Ireland | Documentary | TRAILER

The Civilized Debate Over Abortion in Ireland

Janet, do you believe we're capable of a civilised debate on this issue? Well, as a person who's spoken of having travelled for an abortion myself, an awful lot of the rhetoric online can be very hurtful and we can get an awful lot of abuse.

So I would ask anybody engaging on this topic to be civil.

Do you believe abortion is murder?

Yeah, but I'm not going to say yes.

I'm not going to blame the women who do it.

But we do need to change some of the language. We do need to destigmatise it. It's one of the reasons the Abortion Rights Campaign is called the Abortion Rights Campaign. For too long, we didn't even use the word abortion in this country.

Pro-Life Language and the Refusal to Condemn Women

How do you stop babies being murdered?

That's right.

So what you do is, you don't condemn them and tell them they're murderers.

From our point of view, we're the campaign to broaden the existing abortion rights in this country. So it's really important that we use the word.

Abortion, Medical Tragedy, and the Pro-Choice Response

Are told by a medical-certed doctor that this baby is not going to survive outside the room. Why should you be tortured and carry a child that's not going to survive? It's inhuman.

Why is it that the pro-choice movement doesn't like to engage positions intellectually and with reason?

This is what the left does. They intimidate the aborted people. That's the purpose of the left. Make sure that you can't articulate your viewpoint in any way.