An independent Senator has echoed the calls of the Pro Life Campaign for a special Oireachtas committee to examine the issue of bias and impartiality in RTE particularly in regard to its coverage of abortion.

 Senator Ronan Mullen said an “RTÉ Investigates” programme that was aired Monday night was “shocking for its one-sidedness and bias and its complete failure to depict another side of an important and distressing story”.

Calling it a “propaganda piece”, he said “pro-abortion activism was at the core of this programme”, with prominent activists centre stage, yet depicted simply as experts.

“There was no mention of this spiralling abortion rate and no mention of questions around precautionary pain relief in late-term abortions. We heard euphemistic language about what happens to a disabled or severely disabled child in a late-term abortion but no focus on the reality of what happens to the baby in that dreadfully tragic situation.”