North West TD Noel Rock has slammed a Dubliner who is running for the upcoming European elections after receiving complaints about his election leaflets.
Eamonn Murphy has been heavily criticised online for delivering these "fear-mongering" leaflets around Dublin.
The candidate is campaigning to have "a European Directive to inform women of rights to criminal damages for abortions lacking informed consent.
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Rock said that the leaflets were "disgraceful" and have caused a number of people to complain personally to him about them.
He said: "I think the leaflet is shameful - it’s unproven, unfounded fear-mongering.
"It has attracted a number of complaints to my office already and has clearly caused offence to many.
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"I’ve received over 30 complaints in last 24 hours as it was delivered in Santry yesterday.
"I am often disappointed by how quickly those who cloak themselves in Christian iconography rush to judge others, cast aspersions on others and set out to upset others.
Some lines in the leaflet include "peer reviewed research has shown that breast cancer increases with the number of abortions before lactogenesis which begins at 33 weeks.
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A "furious" Dublin doctor described Murphy as a "gish-gallop of outright falsehoods about abortion."
Dr. David Robert Grimes said that he had disproved these "myths before" and said that it's "appalling this nonsense continues".
Grimes described the abortion and breast cancer link as "unbridled nonsense of the highest order.
He added: "The abortion-breast-cancer conjecture (ABC) was championed by prominent born-again Christian and anti-abortion campaigner Dr Joel Brind in the early 1990s.
"This alleged link is not supported by the scientific literature, and the ostensible link between breast cancer and induced abortion is explicitly rejected by the medical community."
