The Government’s abortion Bill is “cruel and corrupt” and “an affront to the fundamental equality of all human beings,” and Taoiseach Enda Kenny should be ashamed of bringing it forward, Senator Ronan Mullen has said. Speaking yesterday during the Seanad debate on the legislation Senator Mullen said that while Mr Kenny claimed to be following...
Most children in the UK will be born outside marriage within three years, new official figures suggest. According to new data from the Office for National Statistics, nearly half of all children in England and Wales, 47.5pc, were born outside marriage in 2012. The comparable figure was 25pc in 1988 and just 11pc in 1979....
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that religious freedom trumps the right to found a trade union. Last week, the Grand Chamber of the ECHR held that Member States can refuse to recognise a priests’ union, on the basis that recognition would violate a Church’s right to function according to its own...
David Quinn’s piece in today’s Irish Independent explains how Irish voters got conned into supporting abortion legislation by poor reporting, twisted media coverage of the medical facts and the bullying tactics employed by Fine Gael towards its own TDs. But, as he points out, the passage of this Bill is by no means the end...
Lucinda Creighton has resigned as Minister of State for Europe after voting against the Government’s abortion legislation. Last night the Dáil passed the the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 by 127 votes to 31. It is the first time in Irish history that the State has legalised the intentional destruction of innocent human...
Same-sex civil partners and step parents should have parental responsibility given to them by the State, the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection has recommended. In a report to the Oireachtas, published yesterday, the Special Rapporteur, Dr Geoffrey Shannon (pictured), recommended that the State implement recommendations made in 2010 by the Law Reform Commission (LRC) in...
The Minister for Europe, Lucinda Creighton, has said that the Government’s abortion legislation is “built on sand”. She said that there had been a range of medical experts who had contacted politicians to express concern “about the complete inability to make this section work and their inability to make it work, as practitioners”. And she...
A leading member of the European People’s Party (EPP), the European political grouping to which Fine Gael belongs, has written to Taoiseach Enda Kenny (pictured), telling him that his refusal give TDs a free vote was “alien to the basic values of the EPP”. Luca Volonte, the Honorary President EPP Group at the Parliamentary Assembly...
Politicians who knowingly vote in support of abortion were acting in “cooperation with evil” and could not reconcile this with their faith, Archbishop Eamon Martin has said. And he said most TDs were more concerned at this time with being “ex-communicated from their own party,” than they were about being excommunicated by the Church. About...
The French Government plans to introduce a Bill by the end of the year to legalise voluntary euthanasia. The announcement was made by French President François Hollande, despite the national ethics committee advising against it, the Christian Institute reports. A majority of Committee members said legalising euthanasia would be “dangerous to society” and a threat to...
