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Abortion / Health, Doctors / Medics

3 maternal deaths in week: Govt failing to prioritise pregnant women, says advocate

After three deaths around childbirth have taken place within a week in Ireland, according to reports, a midwife has said is “clear from recent events that the government is not prioritising maternal safety”.

Abortion / Health, Health

“A miracle”: Parents advised to abort baby with heart defect which vanished

A mum from Hertfordshire has shared how her unborn child was diagnosed with a heart defect during her 20-week scan. Doctors had advised her and her partner to abort, however, they chose life for their baby, who is now happy and healthy after his heart defect “miraculously” vanished when he was just 5 days old.

Abortion / Health, Canvass / Activism / Rally

Rotunda Master “can’t remember" last time abortion protest took place outside hospital

The Master of Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital has said he “can’t remember” the last time an abortion protest took place outside the hospital.

Abortion / Health

An obsessive focus on abortion hasn't stopped women dying of sepsis in Irish hospitals

"Never let a good crisis go to waste," Winston Churchill is supposed to have said during World War II, though the advce is widely attributed to Saul Alinsky's 'Rule for Radicals' on the other side of the political spectrum, but either way it became shorthand for either learning from - or manipulating - a calamity.

Abortion / Health

Doctor says freedom of conscience on abortion must not be barrier to hiring

Doctors have called for the government to act to strengthen freedom of conscience for medical practitioners who do not wish to take part in abortion, opposing a move to allow discrimination against doctors in the hiring process if they do not wish to carry out abortions.

Abortion activists / politicians, Abortion / Health, Abortion / Sexual Assault

The pro-choice movement and the right to choose to kill

Bryony Gordon says the advocates of restrictive American abortion laws ‘claim to want to honour life, only for them to disregard it once it has been born’, and dismiss ‘the needs of women who have been made pregnant by their rapists'

Abortion / Health, Abortion Industry, Abortion: Ireland

Two women have died in Irish maternity hospitals since abortion was made legal, but Minister Simon Harris has cut funds to vital safety measures in order to pay for abortion

During the referendum campaign last year, abortion advocates queued up to claim that Ireland’s pro-life laws were endangering women’s lives.

Abortion / Health

Improved services, not a repeal of the 8th, is needed to prevent outcomes like that of Savita Halappanavar

Savita Halapanavar died on Sunday 28 October 2012, seven days after her admission to University Hospital Galway (UHG), where she was treated on St Monica’s Ward, a gynaecology ward within the Women’s and Children’s Directorate of the Hospital. She was a 31-year-old woman who was 17 weeks pregnant with her first child. Her tragic case has been held up ever since as incontrovertible ‘proof’ that the Eighth Amendment is a crude barrier to the delivery of effective medical care and that it actively endangers the treatment of women who have received a diagnosis of maternal sepsis in pregnancy.

Abortion / Health, Abortion: Ireland, Media Bias

The Irish Times and the 'Totally False' Abortion Story

The inquiry has been held, and the Irish Times’ infamous ‘first Irish abortion’ story has been shown to be totally and utterly false. Journalist Paul Cullen and his employers at the national broadsheet have disgraced themselves, once again, by their decision to splash a piece of pro-abortion propaganda across the front pages in a cynical attempt to exalt Fine Gael’s abortion legislation – only for that propaganda to be exposed as a lame piece of fiction in less than 24 hours.

Abortion / Health, Abortion: Ireland, Doctors / Medics

The loss of two lives is recognised by most people as a double tragedy

On St Stephen’s day the Irish High Court ruled that life-support could be withdrawn from a pregnant woman who had suffered a significant brain trauma and who been pronounced clinically dead three weeks earlier. The case had appeared before the court because doctors were concerned as to how the law should direct them in regard to the life of the unborn baby, who was at approximately 15 weeks gestation when the woman had died. Her family had requested that the life support be withdrawn, because, they told the Court, they believed the chances of the unborn child surviving were minimal.

Abortion / Health

Chile: When abortion was banned the number of illegal abortions fell

One of the most common accusations levelled against abortion restriction is the claim that if abortion is prohibited, a market for illegal unsafe “back alley” abortions will inevitably emerge. Therefore, abortion proponents argue, if women are going to get abortions anyway, it is better that they do so legally. While this argument has numerous flaws, one critical point has recently been upset by new research emerging from Chile which demonstrates that the number of illegal abortions actually fell when abortion was banned.

Abortion / Health, Doctors / Medics

Lack of maternity resources for women in crisis is a real concern

The lack of support for women who experience mental illness during or after pregnancy in Ireland should now be a matter of serious concern. While greater attention is welcome in regards to access for care, much of the discussion in recent times has been towards regarding abortion as a solution for women who are pregnant and mentally ill. Why is abortion continuously the focus of treating mentally ill pregnant women, and why hasn’t the access to mental health care been the focus of this debate all along?

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