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Doctors, Nurses, and Midwives have written to every TD in the Dáil, and to every Senator, to urge them to take "immediate action" to ensure that an ultrasound is provided before abortion pills are prescribed to women after a woman almost died in a case presented by Limerick Maternity Hospital.
The European Parliament on Thursday voted to make abortion a fundamental right, just weeks after French MEPs voted to enshrine the right to abortion in its constitution.
The government’s Safe Access Zones Bill, which would make it a criminal offence to pray or demonstrate outside GP centres, health facilities and hospitals providing abortion nationwide, has been met with scrutiny in the Seanad.
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health has heard concerns from TDs around current practice which permits at-home and remote abortions, and around proposals to scrap the three-day waiting time for abortion made in the abortion review.
Precious Life held a “Life Chain” at Belfast City Hall on Saturday 21st October 2023 at 2.00pm. The event was to mark the 4th anniversary of Westminster forcing abortion on Northern Ireland, and in remembrance of the babies killed since then.
Abortion figures are now 'out of control', according to the Life Institute, as new data released for the first six months of the year suggests that up to 10,000 terminations may take place in 2023 if the trend continues.
The Safe Access Zones Bill is “more to satisfy a lobby group than to solve a real problem that exists in society,” the Dáil has heard.
Organisers of the Rally for Life say that they are “disappointed but not surprised” that an Garda Síochana “failed to record” a complaint of criminal destruction of pro-life posters, even though a call was made to Rathmines Garda station after abortion supporters tore the poster down.
Thousands are expected to gather at the annual Rally for Life on Saturday, where speakers will urge the government to take action to tackle "surging abortion numbers" after new figures show that 8,156 abortions took place in 2022.
Irish abortion providers have given an insight into the reality of the practice with one woman saying “morally and ethically the hardest thing definitely is seeing the little fetus, you know, at the end of it all they are formed so well, like even little fingernails .. even just at, you know, coming up to that twelve-week mark.”
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