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Abortion: Ireland, Doctors / Medics

'3-day reflection before abortion helps women': Over 100 doctors, nurses and HCPS urge Minister not to change law

More than 100 doctors, nurses, midwives and other healthcare professionals, including consultants, obstetricians and senior medical staff in maternity services, have signed an open letter "strongly urging" the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, to retain the 3-day period of reflection before undergoing an abortion.

Abortion: Ireland, Press Release

PR: New figures confirm that 3-day wait reduces abortion: Scrapping it betrays voters

New data released to Carol Nolan TD shows, yet again, that more than a thousand women changed their mind during the 3-day period of reflection after a first abortion appointment.

Abortion: Ireland, Press Release

PR: Billboard campaign urges retention of 3-day wait for abortion

A new billboard campaign from Life Institute is urging that the 3-day waiting period before undergoing an abortion be retained, and the group says data suggests that scrapping the period for reflection may bring another sharp rise in the abortion rate.

Abortion / Disability, Abortion: Ireland

Minister for disabilities seeks more disability abortions?

“Where will Anne Rabbitte, as Minister for Disabilties, draw the line on disability abortion? How far is Ireland now from the situation in other countries where 90% or more of babies diagnosed with Down Syndrome are aborted?

Abortion: Ireland, Life, Life Canvass, Activism, Rally/March for Life, Roadshows

Irish pro-life advocates & supporters from across the county and beyond gathered to attend LIFE TALKS - a pro-life seminar organised by Choose Life.

Considerable preparation by the Cavan pro-life activists ensured a great turnout for the event and a positive and optimistic atmosphere prevailed.

Abortion: Ireland, Life Canvass, Activism, Rally/March for Life, Roadshows, exclusion zones

Pro-lifers will resist any attempt to close down Rally for Life

Just last month, we gathered for the national All-Ireland Rally for Life - and the thousands who took part were inspired to bring their recharged joy back to their hometowns.

Abortion: Ireland, Abortion Politicians, Legal, exclusion zones, protests

“Jailing people for silent prayer” like “dragging Ireland back to penal laws”

Minister Stephen Donnelly been accused of proposing to “jail people for silent prayer” by introducing a law targeting pro-life activists that would “be like dragging Ireland back to the time of the penal laws”

Abortion: Ireland, Abortion Politicians, Doctors / Medics, Media Bias, Irish Media

Abortion doctor provides no tangible evidence of harassment claim

Gript can reveal that the claim made by Minister Stephen Donnelly - and repeated on Drivetime - that 14% or 1 in 7 women had experienced “protest” and “intimidation” while seeking abortion is not confirmed by any rigorous research, but is based on an online survey by the Abortion Rights Campaign.

Abortion: Ireland, Media Bias, Irish Media, Journalism

Archbishop writes to equality commission after Belfast Telegraph refuses advert with pro-life statement

The Archbishop of Armagh has written to the Northern Ireland Equality Commission over the refusal of The Belfast Telegraph newspaper to publish, as a paid advertisement, the recent statement from the Catholic Bishops in the run-up to the Northern Ireland Assembly election on 2 May 2022.

Abortion, Abortion: Ireland, Hospital, HSE

No surprise: Report produces by abortion supporters for HSE ignores inconvenient truths

"The HSE-funded research on abortion in Ireland was produced by two repeal campaigners. They ignored all inconvenient truths such as the shocking rise in abortions, data on disability abortions, and the lives saved by the 3 day-wait."

Abortion: Ireland, Abortion: North of Ireland, Legal, Press Release, Irish Media

PR: Malice and a desire to punish pro-lifers behind push to criminalise prayer vigils at abortion

The Life Institute has said that it believes a great deal of malice and a desire to punish pro-life activists is the primary motivation behind moves to criminalise peaceful and prayerful vigils at abortion centres.

Abortion: Ireland

6,700 babies aborted: numbers rise as government 'sees no evil, speaks no evil' in regard outcomes of law

The Life Institute has described the confirmation that some 6,700 abortions took place in 2021 as a "devastating indictment of a bad law that continued to produce horrific outcomes for both mother and baby".

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