Cora Sherlock, Vice Chairperson of the Irish Pro-Life Campaign, is, as the Weekly Standard once said of Sinéad O'Connor's ex-boyfriend, John Waters, "one of the most original thinkers in Europe right now".
On April 1st Cora issued the following audacious Tweet
How come #IrelandsGuiltySecret didn't address fact that incinerated remains of 15,000 aborted babies were used to heat hospitals in UK?
— Cora Sherlock (@CoraSherlock) April 1, 2015
Despite the date, it was not an April fool, at least not consciously so. Indeed it's nothing Cora hasn't said before. When Cora said similiar on Twitter late last summer, it let me to write
'Renewable
Energy: Cora Sherlock’s Excellent Suggestion', a constructive contribution
to the ongoing abortion/renewable energy debate, written in poetic form. It was
originally published on Chris
Murray's always lively Poethead
site. Cora's April fools day resurrection of the issue on Twitter resulted in this article, in which both Cora's excellent suggestion and my poem feature, being published yesterday on the U.S. based left wing political blog We Know What's Up.
It appears that Cora is a bit miffed by all this, and thinks I'm joking.
Sad indictment of humanity when #prochoice mock aborted babies' remains being used to heat UK hospitals. pic.twitter.com/gaaoQCDdwu
— Cora Sherlock (@CoraSherlock) April 2, 2015
I can assure you Cora, me auld mucker, I am quite, quite serious.
