Pro-life campaigners are planning to try and stop Irish women travelling abroad for abortions by protesting at airports with graphic images of aborted foetuses. However Cork and Dublin airports have said the organisation will not get permission to go ahead. The Irish Centre for Bio-ethical Reform (ICBR) is planning on using placards and banners to discourage women from flying to the UK to terminate their pregnancies.
“We intend on standing at the airport with our airport themed images as part of our consumer protection initiative,” they say. “We will show their ‘consumer client’ what they would never dare to – abortion reality.”
The ICBR’s plan is to show images of aborted foetuses on placards.
“The more days we can organise volunteers to stand there, the more women will see these images and the fewer will undergo abortion,” they say.
“We will liaise with local crisis pregnancy centres and direct women who approach us to them for further counselling and support. But many no doubt will simply do a U-turn at the airport or never arrive for their abortion appointment having decided on life-affirming options for their babies.”
The ICBR are planning on holding the protests in the centre of Cork as well as Dublin and Cork airports.
But both airports have said they won’t give permission for the demonstrations to go ahead.
