The Pro Life Campaign (PLC) has urged the Government to present the “positive side of the Eighth Amendment” to the United Nations. As Government representatives in Geneva faced the UN’s Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) – the PLC stressed the necessity of a voice to balance those of the National Women’s Council and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHRC), both of which have argued from a pro-abortion stance against Ireland’s constitutional protection for the unborn. Speaking in Geneva, the PLC’s Sinead Slattery said, “It is imperative that the Government present this very positive side of the Eighth Amendment, and that they highlight the families who say that their children are alive as a direct result of our life-saving laws… “Abortion is, by its very nature, discriminatory as it allows some human beings to be given lesser protection under the law. The practice of sex-selection abortions has also led to widespread discrimination against baby girls in particular and efforts to outlaw this practice have been opposed by abortion providers such as the British Pregnancy Advisory Service.”