Editor’s note. This comes from our friends at Familyandlife.org.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
Within hours of the Catholic Bishops reminding voters of their responsibility towards the unborn, the Labour Party committed itself to its most extreme position ever on abortion. The Labour Party revealed that, if it is part of the next government, it plans to introduce abortion on demand, modeled on Britain’s 1967 Abortion Act.
In a pastoral statement, Ireland’s four archbishops expressed their strong opposition to “any weakening of the affirmation of the right to life of the unborn.”.This followed individual statements from Archbishop Eamon Martin, Archbishop Michael Neary, Bishop Kevin Doran, Bishop Ray Browne, and Bishop John Buckley, all of whom stressed the importance of protecting the unborn.
In an interview, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin , referring to abortion, said, “You cannot pretend to be a Catholic and leave aside a very vital part of Catholic teaching.”
Labour’s latest abortion policy was launched by three of the party’s most prominent pro-abortion activists, Senator Ivana Bacik, and TDs [members of the lower house of the Irish Parliament] Alex White and Aodhán O Ríordáin. They said the party will insist on starting the process of holding an abortion referendum by the summer, if they are involved in negotiating the next Programme for Government.
Labour wants to repeal the Eighth Amendment, which gives equal status to the life of the mother and the unborn, and put in place legislation. Senator Bacik said the draft legislation the party has endorsed is “broadly in line” with the 1967 Abortion Act in England and Wales which effectively allows abortion on demand and under which almost 200,000 abortions are performed every year.