The pro-choice movement in Ireland won as emphatic a victory on Friday as the pro-life movement did in 1983. What was the response of the pro-choice side to their heavy defeat back then? Was it to go away? It was not. Instead they took the long view and immediately began the work of repealing the...
Leo Varadkar admits he wants abortion on socio-economic grounds Taoiseach does not believe unborn has rights before viability May 23, 2018 – Several times in the last number of days Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has effectively admitted he backs abortion on socio-economic grounds rather than simply for life or health reasons. In addition, he has indicated...
Simon Harris is seriously misleading the public about his proposed abortion Bill May 23, 2018 – It is now abundantly clear that Health Minister, Simon Harris, does not understand the abortion law he himself is proposing and is seriously misleading the public about its contents. On Prime Time last night, he falsely claimed that no...
The Iona Institute made a submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health earlier this year concerning the General Scheme of the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017. It can be found here.
By Jim Stack MSc PhD The abortion law proposed by our Government should the 8th be repealed would be close in kind to the Portuguese law. Post-liberalisation of its law in 2007, the prevalence of abortion in Portugal jumped very substantially. It does not augur well for what will happen in this country, to put...
Maria Steen was interviewed by Pat Kenny about the abortion referendum, in response to an interview the previous day with Dr Peter Boylan of Together for Yes. Her interview can be heard here.
Maria Steen was on RTE’s Claire Byrne Live last Monday, discussing the upcoming abortion referendum. Other panellists were Dr John Monaghan, obstetrician, and Mary Butler, Fianna Fáil MP. Representatives of the YES were Orla O’Connor, from the National Women Council of Ireland, Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Sinn Féin, and Dr Peter Boylan, obstetrician. You can watch...
David Quinn appeared at the Marian Finucane show on RTE Radio, on Sunday 13th May. Other panellists were retired Judge Catherine McGuinness and pro-choice GP, Dr Mark Murphy, for the YES side, and journalist Larissa Nolan for the NO side. The item can be listened here.
An issue in the current abortion debate is the effect the proposed law will have on abortion rates of unborn babies with non-fatal abnormalities. Two things are worth noting. First, is that several very senior doctors seem to have no objection in principle to the law allowing abortion in such cases. The second is that...
The pro-life side had an excellent outing last night on RTE’s Claire Byrne Live. Maria Steen (pictured), the rest of the panel and every pro-life person in the audience was superb. Despite the bias of much of the media, despite Google banning all referendum ads (to the delight of the Yes side), last night hundreds...
