Charges have been dismissed against two pro-life demonstrators in Dublin who were arrested for displaying signs depicting aborted babies at a picket. The two were charged in April with provoking a breach of the peace.
According to the charges made by the arresting Gardai [Ireland's National Police Force], Donal O’Driscoll and Colm Callanan had displayed “a visible representation which was threatening, abusive, insulting or obscene with intent to provoke a breach of the peace.”
The placards read: “There are no nice pictures of an abortion,” and included a photo of a baby of viable gestational age killed by abortion. If upheld, punishment could have been a fine and/or three months imprisonment.
The protest they were attending was against a court decision in 2003 that granted the Midland Health Board permission to allow a teenager who became pregnant in its care to travel to Britain for an abortion.
Donal O’Driscoll, editor of the conservative Irish Media Review, wrote in an op-ed piece that the picketers were doing “the job of the Gardai, which is to defend life as well as property.”
The Midland Health Board scandal caused a furor in Ireland where abortion remains illegal.
(This article courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
