The sight of three white coffins outside the Holles Street National Maternity Hospital caused horror and dismay to passers-by last Saturday in Dublin. Some people initially thought that there must have been some sort of tragic accident. Signs such as “abortion is a murder” and “abortion is a sin”, however, quickly alerted them to the cause of this gathering.
The anti-abortion group, the Lourdes Protectors, have vowed today to continue to use such stark imagery in the future. A spokesman for the group, Charles Byrne, told The Liberal:
“Every day more than 30 innocent human beings, a whole classroom of children, are killed by abortion in this country. The white coffins symbolise the humanity of these children. We will not let their deaths pass in silence.”
Earlier this year, the HSE suggested on their website that aborted babies “can be flushed down the toilet.” Mr Byrne, citing this macabre advice, also told The Liberal:
“These white coffins are a token of the funeral that these innocent babies will never get. They are not trash to be discarded as mere nothings. Each of them is somebody unique and precious. In life they deserved a cradle; in death, at least, they deserved a coffin.”
Lourdes Protectors are militantly religious, displaying a feisty Catholicism not usually seen in modern-day Ireland. A video posted to the group’s Facebook page described the event as a “Rosary of Reparation”. “Public sin”, the group boldly states, “requires public reparation to appease the anger of Almighty God.”
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