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Bioethics, Legal

Who decides if unborn lives matter?

A humane society is one in which our status as persons with dignity and rights is recognised to be innate, and given simply by virtue of being a human being.

Bioethics

Watch: This amazing video shows Spina Bifida operation on unborn baby

A video made by Cleveland Clinic illustrating how it had successfully performed its first in utero foetal surgery to repair a spina bifida birth defect in a nearly 23-week-old foetus is now attracting significant attention on social media.

Abortion, Bioethics

766 Babies Born Alive After Abortions and Left to Die in Canada Over Five Years

My friend and fellow blogger Patricia Maloney, who has been covering the story of live-birth abortions for several years now, published some of her latest findings last week.

Abortion, Bioethics, Foreign Funding

Why Amnesty and Others Are Demanding a Right to Foreign Funding to Push for Change in Irish Law

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and Amnesty International are amongst organisations complaining that the 2001 amendment to the Electoral Act of 1997 by the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPOC) is curbing civil society and human rights organisations, and that there is now a “chilling effect” on the work of human rights organisations.

Abortion, Bioethics, UN / EU / Other bodies

The UN Declaration of Human Rights at 70 – from Shepherd to Wolf?

Documents asserting individual rights, such the Magna Carta (1215), the English Bill of Rights (1689), the French Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789), and the US Constitution and Bill of Rights (1791) are the written precursors to many of today’s human rights documents.

Abortion, Bioethics, Government / Abortion

Will the Government Continue to Show Compassion?

Compassion is the new buzzword. With it you can sell anything to a ‘compassionate’ public, even death.

Abortion, Bioethics

The Facts Get in the Way When Harris and Others Try to Bury the Evidence on Abortion and Down Syndrome

The political and intellectual dishonesty about abortion has to stop. Pro-choice politicians and commentators repeatedly call for a calm and respectful debate but have no intention of abiding by their own rules of the game.

Abortion, Abortion: Ireland, Abortion: UK, Bioethics

A Story of Life

One of five children, I was born in the late 1930s. Growing up in Ireland during the 1950s was happy, not drab and grey as we are currently led to believe. In the early 1960s, I emigrated to London with many Irish people. London was a lively place but, compared to now, it was a lot more difficult to travel to and from Ireland to visit family and friends so I often felt homesick. While training as a nurse, I met my husband. An articulate and well-read Englishman with an Irish mother and an English father, he was raised a Catholic.

Abortion, Bioethics

ROBBIE RUDD: The defence of life fights ideologies

Defending life at all times for the human being today is a complicated mission Ideologies gain ground among people who are not informed, or who are simply against the defense of life; for economic, demographic, and other reasons.

Abortion / Disability, Bioethics

First perinatal care conference hears of revolutionary new treatments and perinatal hospice care

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the International Perinatal and Hospice Care Conference held at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin. Going into the conference, I was prepared to hear typical medical conference fare – long and technical presentations albeit about an interesting topic. I was interested in learning more about issues surrounding babies born with foetal anomalies and new methods of providing care for these children. I was not expecting the conference – which was packed with doctors and nurses and midwives from all over the country – to be as hopeful and inspiring as it was.

Abortion, Abortion: Nth Ireland, Bioethics

6 things you need to know about the Belfast Court abortion ruling

A Belfast High Court judge has ruled that abortion should be made available in the north of Ireland where the baby had a severe disability or was conceived through rape. The case was taken by the Northern Ireland Human Right Commission and the ruling has been described as driving a coach and horses through Northern Ireland’s abortion law. Precious Life, the leading anti-abortion group in the north, said that Justice Mark Horner’s ruling was ‘incompatible with human rights’, and it’s hard to see how the court could have made a ruling which was both misinformed and contradictory, and used language that was sometimes cruel and offensive.

Bioethics, Crisis Pregnancy, Support, Adoption

THE GIRL WHO LOVES – THE AMAZING STORY OF KATHLEEN ROSE

Having attended the National Convention for Life recently in Dublin I was lucky to have heard the wonderful story Tracy Harkin had to tell. Originally from Antrim, Tracy was living in Washington State when she became pregnant on her fifth child and she felt she had nothing to worry about. Everything was going along so perfectly that she decided after her 20 week scan to have a home water birth.

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