No party or candidate included the legalisation of assisted suicide in their manifesto in Ireland’s recent general election, not even under a spin-doctored euphemism. Yet a majority of TDs are hell-bent on making the murderous measure the law of the land.
All Sinn Fein and Labour TDs and Senators support this innovation which apparently was never discussed at their Ard Fheis or Conference and they appear to be of one mind on the matter. For Arthur Grifffith in 1905 and Connolly and Larkin and their followers for over a century since, such an idea would have been damned as monstrous and moronic.
It is hard to believe that that each and every representative of both parties have had a conversion, like a diabolical parody of St Paul on the road to Damascus. Could professed Republicans of this era not tolerate even one Dissenter?
I’ve long despaired of Fine Gael, which once had many fine people. Fianna Fail, once the backbone and brain of political Ireland , despite the treachery of Jack Lynch, survived and created a prosperous state, and played a central, constructive role in the Peace Process. But under Micheal Martin, Fianna Fail has repudiated all de Valera stood for.
I’m not surprised that so many in Fine Gael and Fianna Fail support assisted suicide. It seems to me that both parties are in suicidal mode.
Here I face a dilemma.
In all conscience, I can’t assist their suicides.
But I’ll be hanged If I try to change their current course.
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