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Pro-life groups have described the passage of the Abortion Bill as a stain on the Irish nation which had always worked to protect the lives of both mother and baby. They said a political alternative would arise which would gain support because it protect human life.

Niamh Ui Bhriain of the Life Institute said that the Bill had been forced through in defiance of medical evidence and of public opinion, and that abortion until birth  was now legal in a country where the majority of people remained opposed to such legislation.

"Legalizing abortion through all nine months of pregnancy is a stain on this nation,"she said. "Abortion is a medieval solution to an unexpected pregnancy: it has no place in modern medicine or a civilised society. We can do better for mothers and their babies than to kill unborn children, and this Bill, which has been passed by a dint of bribery and bullying, is a shameful, regressive and cruel piece of legislation."

She said that 60,000 people had gathered for the biggest rally ever seen in Ireland on any issue in recent times, in a march organised by Youth Defence and Precious Life in opposition to the Bill. "100,000 have also signed a pledge never to vote for Fine Gael again because of the Bill, and those people are now anxious to support a new political alternative which would protect human life."

Clare Molloy of Youth Defence said that every politician who voted for the Bill now bore responsibility for every child who would be deliberately killed under the law.