Brian Ó Raghallaigh

A little mystery can be a good thing

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

I had never heard of you prior to your video (where you read the amnio results) crossing my timeline. I cried. Not because of the Trisomy 18 diagnosis for your unborn 21 (?) week old baby, but because it was apparent you were not going to accept this child as he was. Let me give you some words of hard-earned wisdom, please. I've had 5 miscarriages. Those babies were 'losses'. The 4th one was a little girl whose heart stopped at 12 weeks gestation due to Down Syndrome. Later, I had 2 sons. Four years ago, at age 17, I lost my eldest son. He was born profoundly disabled both physically and intellectually. It often wasn't easy, but hear me when I say he was the happiest, most loving, beautiful child I could imagine and he made me a mother. The loving bond he and his younger brother shared was tremendous and strong. His death was a loss like no other imaginable. I would have traded places with him if I could have saved him. Back to your video. I cried because I know what it feels like when a life you love more than yourself is ripped away from you. I worry that you may make the same decision if any future pregnancies don't go as you unrealistically hope. You didn't make 'an impossible decision'. You made a decision to end the life of you son who was halfway through his gestational time. It wasn't 'a loss'. It was a calculated decision. When you try to have children, when you get pregnant, you never know what will happen. If you cannot accept the child as he or she has come to you, I would suggest you think long and hard before trying again.

PS: I don't hate you. I don't even know you. But I would suggest you and your wife take a social media break for the next few months. Really take time to reflect and heal. You put this out there for the world to see. I think it should have been private.

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@JamesTate121 Hint: They’re not actually pro-life if they’re threatening to kill people.

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@mysteriouskat That’s a fair point

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

It’s awful but the thing that I find interesting is there is a lot of online discussion (a lot of which is truly horrific from various angles) about how people will struggle to raise a child with DS because of various difficulties, lack of supports etc.

Iceland is saying no, we have the required supports but people still decide to kill these children anyway because they aren’t the right kind of children.

It’s happening in Ireland too obviously but there is no data gathered on abortion in the case of children with DS. A soundbite from the master of the Rotunda from a number of years ago is all we have.

What does that tell you? We don’t even gather data on the number of these children killed for having a disability! Why? Because they aren’t the right kind of children.

[Death Penalty Action @DeathPenaltyAct]

💔The US is now 8 nitrogen suffocation executions deep with another scheduled in Alabama on Thursday. No matter how many times former ADOC Commissioner Hamm repeated his line about involuntary movements does not make it true. Every single nitrogen execution has been horrific. FULL STOP🛑

🙅‍♀️There is NO good way to kill someone. Say NO to gas executions across the US...
https://t.co/YKOxpPyrfc

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@TheCinesthetic Has to be The A-Team

MacGyver is in second place.

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@DiscussingFilm The least shocked I’ve ever been!

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@rtenews Why don’t you mention the unborn child who was also killed in this post?

[Death Penalty Action @DeathPenaltyAct]

#AndrewLukehart lives with Chronic Kidney Disease, a disease that dramatically increases his risk of an especially torturous execution - something that (in theory) should violate the Eighth Amentment's prohibition of "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"... @fadporg

"Stop this killing spree, Gov. DeSantis!"
📞 850-717-9337
https://t.co/x44L4YAqgp

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@GolfTipsChecker Watched it live at the time and still painful to watch. Iron from the tee and play it as a par 5 at worst and win by two.

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@KalshiSports Van de Velde hitting a driver on the 72nd hole at the British Open while having a 3 shot lead.

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@TheCinesthetic The Americans

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

Pregnant woman: I’m going to engage in depraved acts while pregnant. It’s my body so…

Some on X: That’s awful. What about the baby’s body?!

Pregnant woman: I’m going to exercise my right to choose to end the life of my unborn child. It’s my body so…

Same people on X: Fair enough. Your body, your choice.

#ConsistentLifeEthic

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@AmnestyIreland For a ‘human rights organisation’, you’re really shit at the human rights part!

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@FineGael Few things worse in life than seeing a gaggle of celebratory Blueshirts!

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@TJ_Politics Hi, I’m Daniel. I think we need to kill more prenatal humans and that a bloke in a skirt is a woman.

Dublin Central: Where do I sign?

Go bhfóire Dia orainn!!!

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@TJ_Politics Mind boggling 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@celtic_jaime A bath and then Bullseye

[Brian Ó Raghallaigh @boraghal]

@MichealMartinTD @Pontifex Did he excommunicate you for your role in the introduction of abortion here?