Pro-Life

For the past couple of years the Irish government has "struggled to respond" to a ruling by the European court of human rights, which found that although Irish law permits abortion in cases where the woman's life is in danger, the relevant laws were not being implemented. Since Jesus can never have enough sunbeams, it seems that a woman has now died of septicaemia after being denied a medical termination of her miscarrying pregnancy. The tragedy appears to have provoked an unwonted silence from those nominally celibate males in skirts, such as the recent Bigot of the Year laureate Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who usually have so much to say about God's law concerning the rights of the non-ordained. Presumably they are busy praying for the foetus or scattering holy water, or doing something equally helpful.