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February 9, 2016

He lived for four hours after birth – but had a million followers on Facebook. Shane Haley parents speak in Dublin

Although he lived outside the womb for just four hours, baby Shane Haley gained almost one million followers on Facebook and garnered the attention of the world’s media due the innovative “bucket list” of fun activities or significant locations his parents took him to while he was still in the...

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May 14, 2015

Outgoing Master of Rotunda calls for better perinatal hospice type care

Every Life Counts has welcomed a call for increased support for families who face a life-limiting diagnosis for their unborn baby. Dr Sam Coulter Smyth, the outgoing Master of the Rotunda, wrote to Dr Tony Holohan the Chief Medical Officer of the HSE asking for better services for families.

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December 3, 2014

Parents welcome Bill to outlaw misleading statements about unborn children with disabilities

Parents from the support group Every Life Counts have launched a powerful initiative to end the phrase 'incompatible with life'. The campaign was launched in both Dublin and Belfast by families who say the phrase is 'misleading and offensive' and dehumanises children with profound...

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December 3, 2014

Mattie McGrath TD says Parents of disabled children compellingly argued for legislative change

Independent TD Mattie McGrath has welcomed the growing support he is receiving from members of both the Dáil and Seanad for introducing a Private Members Bill (PMB) which seeks to regulate against the continued use of the phrase ‘incompatible with life.’ Deputy McGrath...

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November 8, 2014

GOOD NEWS: MELISA study finds effects of illegal abortions also down after abortion ban

When Chile moved to totally ban abortion in 1989, abortion campaigners insisted that illegal abortion rates would climb and harm caused to women from the same would also increase. But deaths from illegal abortion plummeted after the ban, and Chile has become a leader in maternal healthcare with...

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October 8, 2014

Amazing! Almost 1000 medical experts sign Dublin Declaration

Almost 1,000 medical professionals have now signed the Dublin Declaration on Maternal Health, which was launched in 2012 to affirm that abortion is not needed to save women's lives.

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October 8, 2014

A little bit of balance on Newstalk

Last week, Newstalk Radio ran an three-day campaign seeking to change the law to allow for abortion in cases where children have a profound disability, dubbed a 'fatal foetal abnormality' by Irish commentators, even though the conditions are not always fatal.

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October 11, 2013

Savita inquiry says deficiencies in care to blame: abortion not issue in report

The final report into the death of Savita Halappanavar has found that there was a failure to provide basic elements of patient care, and that Savita's life could have been saved if missed opportunities had been acted upon.

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August 31, 2013

Woman wakes from coma, rejects abortion

Imagine waking up in a hospital bed unable to move. Doctors tell you that you were in a freak road accident and have been in a coma for three months. You can’t remember any of it. Actually, you can’t remember anything from the past three years of your life.

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August 10, 2013

New research rubbishes claim that abortion 14 times safer than childbirth

New research by an esteemed specialist in high risk maternal healthcare, has shown that there is a startling lack of evidence to support claims made by some scholars that women are much 14 times more likely to die as a consequence of childbirth as compared to abortion.

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