Two prominent obstetricians have written to The Irish Independent to refute claims that the 8th amendment is endangering women. Doctor Michael F O’Hare is the chairman of the Joint Institute of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists/HSE Working Group on Maternal Mortality and says that “there is no evidence whatever of a higher risk of maternal mortality or severe...
Maria Steen, of the Iona Institute, spoke to Pat Kenny about the draft abortion legislation presented to the Cabinet by Minister for Health, Simon Harris, and also about Simon Coveney’s recent volte-face on this topic. Pat Kenny defended staunchly the Government position. The item can be listened here.
Pro-choice campaigners like to say that the public must be ‘protected’ against misinformation from the pro-life side. But they themselves are guilty of spreading misinformation, for example the claim that countries such as Ireland, which have restrictive abortion regimes, have rates of abortion higher than countries with liberal regimes. Last week, the Guttmacher Institute, a...
We are pleased to announce that we have launched the second round of our national billboard campaign. It has the same, simple and unmistakable message as last time, namely that the unborn child is ‘One of Us’. This is the truth that pro-choice campaigners want the public to ignore. They do not want to acknowledge the...
On his radio show last week, Sean O’Rourke hosted two doctors with opposing views on abortion. The debate went right back to medical first principles; what is medicine for? Dr. John Monaghan, a recently retired obstetrician who delivered more than 10,000 babies over his career, said that everyone in his position had to terminate pregnancies...
Can a Catholic with a well-informed conscience vote in favour of abortion? A question of this kind was put to Bishop Alan McGuckian, on Wednesday on RTE’s Morning Ireland. The short answer is no. The teaching of the Catholic Church on abortion is clear. Direct abortion is always wrong because, as the Catechism says, “human...
By Renate Lindeman Today my 12 year old daughter with Down syndrome delivered a speech on inclusion in her school. “Segregation makes a child feel lonely and not liked. It also teaches other students that it is okay to segregate children who are different. Students with special needs who are included are happier and...
Our new video points out that the abortion law currently being proposed by the Government goes even further than the already very permissive British law. The British law means one in every five pregnancies there ends in abortion each year. Here we will set out exactly how what’s on offer in Ireland is more permissive...
The Government wants Ireland to introduce an abortion law that goes even further than the British one. The British law results in one pregnancy in five ending in abortion each year. Watch our new video to learn more.
Minister Simon Harris wants GPs in Ireland to be the main providers of abortion, and to prescribe the abortion pills to women ‘with no restriction as to reason’ in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. The vast majority of abortions take place during this time frame. It is hard to believe he has thought this...
