Catholic Bishop of Ossory Dermot Farrell has said he has been told that abortion is worse than rape. “First of all rape is a violent act and it’s a violent crime against a woman - a terrible crime. And sometimes, what I understand from women who have been raped, is that the abortion that followed sometimes after rape was far worse than the rape itself,” he told Pat Kenny on Friday morning on Newstalk. In this regard abortion visits harm not only on women, but also on men and the surviving children,” he said. In recent weeks, since becoming Bishop of Ossory, I have listened with a new awareness to what is being said.”

Source: The Irish Times May 11, 2018 14:48 UTC