Ireland – Doubts grow over ‘nurse’ used by anti-abortion campaign

Doubts grow over ‘nurse’ used by anti-abortion campaign

Catherine Sanz, Ireland Reporter
March 14 2018

The man portrayed as a nurse for an anti-abortion campaign held an eight-month portering role and falsified a qualification document.

Save the 8th, which campaigns against repeal of the Eighth Amendment, said yesterday it stood by the adverts despite discovering that Noel Pattern, 48, from Wexford, was not honest in the testimony. It said the main point was that Mr Pattern witnessed something he felt was unethical which had not been disputed. The adverts have been taken down at the end of a two-week booking.

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