Mother Teresa Still Dead - So Unavailable To Campaign Against Marriage Equality In Ireland

Mother Teresa is, thankfully, still dead. So at least she can't fly in on her broomstick and urge people here in Ireland to vote no to Marriage Equality, like she did with Divorce in 1995. She does get resurrected in this poem here though.  

Aborted babies heating British Hospitals?

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. 

Tory Nadine Dorries MP promotes my poetry

@CoraSherlock @NadineDorriesMP Renewable Energy: Cora Sherlock’s Excellent Suggestion http://t.co/07n97Osj2I
— Kevin Higgins - poet (@KevinHIpoet1967) August 31, 2014

Nadine Dorries is the Conservative Member of Parliament of Mid-Bedfordshire. She is perhaps best known a prominent opponent of abortion rights. Politically Nadine is, to be charitable, only a little to the left of Enoch Powell or Kaiser Willhelm II. But today she has taken to promoting my poetry when she re-Tweeted one of my poems. 

I think she may have done so by mistake. Read the poem and see what you think.

Poem inspired by Tweet from Cora Sherlock of the Pro-Life campaign

My new poem 'Renewable Energy: Cora Sherlock’s Excellent Suggestion' is published today on Chris Murray's Poethead website. I am hoping the government will quickly implement the policy advocated in this poem.

Its was inspired by the following Tweet by Cora Sherlock of the Pro-Life campaign.

This yr, remains of 15,000 aborted babies were incinerated & used to heat UK hospitals. Is this what Dr F & Sarah want? #AJStream
— Cora Sherlock (@CoraSherlock) August 21, 2014

Cora Sherlock is one of the intellectual giants of contemporary Irish rubbish talk. May God bless her and all who sail in her.