The Pro-Life Campaign (PLC) has welcomed the defeat of a motion before Limerick County Council calling for the repeal of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution, which protects the life of the unborn. It was defeated by a two-to-one margin. The motion was tabled by Cllr Cian Prendiville, an Anti-Austerity Alliance member. He urged councillors to back the repeal of the amendment on the...
Britain’s Liberal Democrats party has called for the removal of the terms ‘male’ and ‘female’ from official forms to end ‘discrimination’ against transgender and intersex people. The plan, placed before the party’s national conference, is entitled the Transgender and Intersex Health Charter, and would see a raft of measures introduced by the party towards greater accommodation of...
The Labour Party has asked two campaigners who want an abortion regime in Ireland similar to what exists in the UK at present to prepare its alternative proposal to Ireland’s constitutional protection for the unborn. Having pledged to offer a referendum on the issue of greater access to abortion if returned to government, party leader Joan Burton...
German politicians and police representatives have called for refugees to be housed according to religion amid widespread attacks on Christians in refugee centres. The chairman of the governing CDU parliamentary group, Volker Kauder, called on Muslim authorities in Germany to “clearly renounce attacks on Christians in the asylum homes”. The call comes after recorded incidents of...
Ireland’s leading prelate has welcomed news that Dublin is to host the World Meeting of Families in 2018. Primate of All Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin said he was “delighted” at the announcement, made at the end of the World Meeting in Philadelphia, concluding Pope Francis’ successful US trip. “I am confident that the World Meeting...
US children raised in homes with an absent father are far more likely to live in poverty, new census figures have revealed. According to data for the year 2014, released by the country’s Census Bureau, fully one third of all those living in poverty in the United States were children, accounting for over 15 million...
US legislators in Wisconsin have moved to end funding for facilities offering abortions in that state. According to Lifesite News, a vote in the Republican-controlled State Assembly on ‘Bill 310’ on the issue of defunding abortion clinics – prompted by the ongoing body parts scandal surrounding the Planned Parenthood organisation – was passed by 60...
A pro-life Bill aimed at barring late-term abortions in the United States has been defeated in the country’s Senate after Democrat legislators blocked a vote on the issue. The Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Bill had passed successfully through the House of Representatives earlier this year, but once it reached the Senate, Democrat senators staged...
Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has sought to reassure those who voted against same-sex marriage in the referendum in May. She told the Dail on Wednesday, while introducing the new Marriage Bill, that the institution had not been weakened as a result of introducing same-sex marriage. She said: “In the wake of those often passionate debates, it...
Quebec’s health minister has publicly stated he will discipline physicians refusing patient requests for assisted suicide, including referral to a pro-euthanasia doctor, regardless of conscientious objection. Ahead of the December 10 activation of the province’s assisted suicide legislation, Gaetan Barrette warned doctors of the University of Montreal Health Centre – one of the largest facilities in...
