IRELAND: DR MAIRE NEASTA NIC GEARAILT SPEAKS ON BEHALF OF THE UNBORN CHILD: ALLEGED NEWS

DR MAIRE NEASTA NIC GEARAILT HAS REVEALED WHY SHE WILL BE VOTING 'NO' ON PROPOSED CHANGES TO LAW ON ABORTION IN IRELAND; ALLEGED NEWS. [1] 
Under proposed legislation, GP's would be required to prescribe and administer abortion pills to any woman up to 12 weeks pregnant, without seeking a reason for the abortion: Alleged News.

GP's not equipped
GP's are not equipped to cope with what's proposed on abortion, writes Dr Maire; Alleged News.
They lack the facilities, the training, the time, and the resources; Alleged News. 

How doctors are to be sure about gestational age, and that they would not breaking the law, is unclear: Alleged News.
Most GP's in Ireland do not currently perform ultrasounds, are not trained to perform ultrasounds, and do not have fetal assessment ultrasonography in their surgeries: Alleged News.  
Providing GP's with this equipment, and training them in their use, will prove expensive and time consuming measure: Alleged News. [1]

Question posed
Once a Doctor is satisfied that a woman has the right under the new law to have an abortion, the Doctor must administer two miscarriage-inducing drugs over several days; Alleged News.
The woman will experience cramping and heavy bleeding prior to the baby being expelled; Alleged News.
Doctor Maire poses the question as to how GP's operating in busy and crowded practices with common waiting rooms, are expected to medically supervise this procedure: Alleged News. [1]
Doctor further points out that most GP surgeries are not the ideal place to deal with any emergencies which might arise from any adverse sequelae from taking the tablets; Alleged News. 

Did not study medicine to end life
Dr Maire affirms that she simply could not in good conscience administer a drug to a healthy young woman with a healthy pregnancy that would cause her to lose her child: Alleged News. 
Doctor writes that she did not study medicine so that she could end a life, and she knows that she is not alone in this: Alleged News. [1] 

Voting 'No'
Dr Maire affirms that doctors are united in their concern on this matter; deeply worried about the proposed law, and that is why she, for one, will be voting 'no' against the referendum: Alleged News.

[1] One doctor reveals why she will be voting 'No' on proposed changes to law on abortion, Alleged News
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/medics-diverse-opinions-on-abortion-must-be-heard-827729.html 

With thanks to the Irish Examiner 

GSC MODULE 56: THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT: THE NEW MOSES SPEAKS FROM THE MOUNTAIN

GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH SEMINARY

MODULE 56

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT:

THE NEW MOSES SPEAKS FROM THE MOUNTAIN

SEATED IN THE MIDST OF THE MULTITUDE ON THE MOUNTAINSIDE, JESUS BEGAN TO TEACH THE DISCOURSE WHICH WE NOW CALL 'THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT'.

Jesus sat on the mountain, so symbolic of meeting with God.
  The great prophet Moses had ascended the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments - the Great Laws - from the Hand of God.
  Now Jesus, the Son of God, as the new and greater Moses proclaimed a new and developed law from the seat of divine revelation.

The fourth beatitude as taught by Christ explains the bliss of the hungry spirit.

The Fourth Beatitude
Blessed are those who crave holiness
In the ancient world many knew what it is to be desperately hungry or really thirsty. A working man's wage was the equivalent of three pence a day.
  A working man in Palestine ate meat only once a week, and together with the day laborer were never far from real hunger and actual starvation.

Many of us today are deeply blessed to have pure running water immediately available. 
  A man caught in a sandstorm on journey would have to wrap his burnous around his face and form, and wait for the choking sand to eventually abate. As the storm raged, he would steadily became parched with deep thirst.

  Jesus describes just this desperate hunger and thirst in the beatitude 'Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied,' Matthew Chapter 5 verse 6.

  This is the hunger of the man who is starving for food, the thirst of one who will die unless he drinks.
  This beatitude challenges us as to how much we desire goodness. Do we crave goodness as a starving man wants food, or as much as a man trapped in the heat of a desert sandstorm craves water? How intense, how sincere, is our desire for goodness?

  Jesus knows our frailty and weakness. He knows too, that many of us - despite our very best intentions - sin. 
  Yet this beatitude is one which comforts.

It is not necessarily the seeker who achieves goodness who is blessed. Rather it is the one who longs whole-heartedly for goodness.
  Blessedness comes to the one who, despite failure and filings, still clutches to him the passionate love of the highest. [1]

  In His Mercy, God judges us not only by our achievements, but also by our dreams. 
  The essence of the human heart is noble, because this is how we were created; in the royal dignity of the Image of God Himself.
  The fourth beatitude counsels us to hunger for the fullness of the goodness of God our Father.

The Fifth Beatitude
Blessed are those who show mercy to others
Jesus explained that the Heart of God is compassionate mercy and forgiveness. Were we all to receive true justice, none would prove pure enough to enter within the holy Presence of God.
  Humanity carries within the strain of sin inherited as consequence of our ancestors' Fall.
  But all is not lost. Christ teaches us that we can regain the Image of God within us,
  We are required to practice the attributes which make God the perfection of holiness, one of which is to show mercy and understanding in the face of another's weakness.

Our gentle, tender and loving God extends mercy to the weeping sinner, understanding to the repentant wrongdoer, forgiveness to the broken Image of God in humanity. 
  Jesus teaches us plainly,  'Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' Matthew Chapter 5, verse 7.

Necessity of forgiveness
Jesus insists that we extend forgiveness as essential for discipleship. He emphasizes that as a consequence of our own mercy to others, God will show mercy for our own faults and failings.

  The Hebrew word for mercy is 'Chesedh'.  Chesedh, mercy, means the ability to enter another's being and see things with his eyes, think about things as he does, feel things with his emotions. 
  It is the understanding of another with their faults and failings with a compassion that can only come from God. [2]
  This is exactly what God did. He came in the truly human body of Jesus, seeing life as we do. 
  He felt with our emotions, thought with the same brain humans think with.
  God completely identified with our reality to the point that He became one of us. 
  Thus He can judge with compassion because He knows how difficult issues and relationships in humanity can prove.

  Oh the bliss of the one who has the serenity of understanding and forgiving another.  
  It is the one who seeks to become holy through the fifth beatitude of mercy who will be blessed by mercy at the Judgement Seat of God.



1] Barclay, William. The Daily Study Bible, Gospel of Matthew Vol 1:CH.1-10. Revised Edition. 1981. Saint Andrew Press; Scotland - Page 11
2] Barclay, William. The Daily Study Bible, Gospel of Matthew Vol 1:CH.1-10. Revised Edition. 1981. Saint Andrew Press; Scotland - Page 103

IOWA VOTES TO APPROVE A BILL TO MAKE ABORTION ILLEGAL UPON PRESENCE OF FETAL HEARTBEAT: ALLEGED NEWS

IOWA STATE SENATE VOTED LAST THURSDAY TO APPROVE A BILL MAKING ABORTION ILLEGAL UPON THE PRESENCE OF THE UNBORN BABY'S HEARTBEAT: ALLEGED NEWS. [1]

Senate Study Bill 3143
The Senate Panel voted 2-1 to approve Senate Study Bill 3143, which outlaws abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected upon ultrasound: Alleged News. [1]

Unborn baby's heartbeat
The unborn baby's heartbeat becomes ultrasound detectable usually within the first six to nine weeks of the pregnancy.

Class D Felony
Any doctor who performs or carries out or attempts to perform an abortion on a woman after her baby's heartbeat is detected will be charged with a Class D felony, and subject to five years in prison and a fine of $750 to $7,500; Alleged News.
The bill makes provision for cases where the mother's life is in danger: Alleged News. [1]

Bill H.F. 2163
The Iowa House of Representatives is currently viewing a similar bill, H.F. 2163; Alleged News.
"These are human beings," State Senator Amy Sinclair reportedly said, "We have the responsibility to offer them the same liberty and the same rights that you and I have," Alleged News. [1]

Newly conceived
The newly conceived baby does not have an ultrasound detectable heartbeat. After four to six weeks of growth after conception, the little one's heartbeat becomes detectable upon ultrasound - often looking like a little star flashing on the screen. 
However, the baby in the earliest stage of conception is alive and growing from the first moment onwards.
The DNA of the baby formed at conception immediately begins growing towards developing neural, bone and various body tissues including cardiac tissue - that of the heart.

From conception - when cardiac heartbeat is not ultrasound detectable, but encoded within DNA of the newly formed baby - until the fetal heartbeat can be heard on ultrasound, is a pivotal time of growth for the living baby.
Iowa State Senate has supported the right of the owner of a cardiac heartbeat to life.
The new debate which opens is that of the right of the living owner of DNA encoding cardiac tissue - to life.




[1] Iowa Senate passes Fetal Heartbeat Abortion Bill, Alleged News
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/09/iowa-heartbeat-abortion-bill/

With thanks to dailycaller.com