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Abortion: Ireland, UN and EU

UN event hears that abortion not medically necessary and can harm women

Dr Eoghan de Faoite joined maternal health experts at a United Nations event in New York last Wednesday to offer evidence that abortion is not medically necessary to promote women’s health and can actually harm women instead.

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The UN and abortion support taken to task

Niamh Uí Bhriain had a great letter in the Irish Times this week, calling out the UN’s support for abortion and asking why the same commentators who were slamming Saudi Arabia’s appointment to a UN women’s rights committee wouldn’t now admit the UN was a farce.

Abortion / Disability, Life Institute, Press Release, UN and EU

PR: UN has trampled on rights

Niamh Uí Bhriain of the Life Institute said that the case had been brought before the United Nations by the US-based Centre for Reproductive Rights, a massively wealthy pro-abortion outfit who were persistently attacking Ireland’s pro-life laws. She said the UN Committee ruling contradicted international human rights law, and trampled on the rights of people with disabilities.

Abortion, UN and EU

EU Committee Member criticises exclusion of pro-life groups in Irish Meeting

A member of the EU Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality has criticised the decision of the Committee to exclude any pro-life views from a Dublin meeting of the Committee in European Parliament offices where abortion campaigners have been invited to make their views heard. Polish MEP, Ms Jadwiga Wiśniewska, a member of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, had asked that the pro-life group, Life Institute, be invited to the meeting in Dublin “to balance the meeting which for the moment seems dominated by the political agenda of one side”. However, the Committee refused to include any organisations opposing abortion in its consultation, although the Abortion Rights Campaign and the National Women’s Council have been asked to take part.

Life Institute, Press Release, UN and EU

PR: Pro-life groups excluded from EU meeting

A member of the EU Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality has criticised the decision of the Committee to exclude any pro-life views from a Dublin meeting of the Committee in European Parliament offices where abortion campaigners have been invited to make their views heard.

Life Institute, Press Release, UN and EU

PR: Our message to the UN

A United Nations Human Rights Committee hearing was used to make hostile allegations against Ireland's pro-life ethos yesterday - and to push for further extension of Ireland's abortion laws.

Abortion: Ireland, UN and EU

Every Life Counts see support build for life-affirming campaign

The support group Every Life Counts took their campaign to end the phrase ‘incompatible with life’ to the UN last week. You can see their members outline the importance of the campaign at the media links below and read their statement on the conference. Support for the campaign appears to be building globally.

Abortion: Europe, UN and EU

"We're going to the UN to say that our babies were not 'incompatible with life'

Irish families will travel to Geneva on Wednesday to launch a major global initiative to stop lethal and discriminatory language being used regarding unborn children with disabilities. Language such as the phrase 'incompatible with life' is causing "lethal discrimination against children diagnosed with severe disabilities, both before and after birth", a conference hosted by the families at the United Nations in Geneva will hear.

Abortion: Ireland, UN and EU

Labour's rep admits European Court ruling not binding

The Labour Party TD, Alex White, has admitted that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) cannot 'require' Ireland to legislate on abortion, according to a report in the Sunday Times.

Abortion: Europe, UN and EU

ONE OF US Initiative challenges the European institutions before the General Court of the European Union

Bravo to the One of Us Initiative, they are not letting this go! Below we print their release

Abortion: Ireland, UN and EU

Our message to the UN: supporting abortion will lose you all credibility as human rights body

A United Nations Human Rights Committee hearing was used to make hostile allegations against Ireland's pro-life ethos yesterday - and to push for further extension of Ireland's abortion laws.

Press Release, UN and EU

PR MEP's urged to oppose decision

Irish MEPS have been urged to speak out against a decision by the EU Commission to ignore a European Citizen's Initiative petition which gathered support from 1.8 million EU citizens. The Life Institute said that the EU Commission's decision was "a clear example of the undemocratic nature of EU decision-making which had caused so many voters to express their dissatisfaction with the European project in the last election."

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