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May 21, 2013

Top doctor opposes suicide clause in abortion legislation at hearings

The Master of Dublin's busiest Maternity hospital, Dr Sam Coulter Smith, has said the there are 'major ethical and moral dilemma' arising for Obstetricians from the draft legislation currently proposed by the government.  He also warned of a possible 'surge' in the number of abortions if the ...

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May 9, 2013

Abortion lawyer in age of consent controversy

An Irish 'abortion rights' lawyer is under fire in Britain for calling for the age of consent to be lowered to 13 in the wake of the Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall scandals. The BBC reports that Barbara Hewson told online magazine Spiked  that the move was necessary in the wake of the Jimmy ...

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May 9, 2013

Morning Ireland forced to clarify truth on Dr Fergusson interview

This morning, 9 May 2013, the RTÉ news programme, Morning Ireland, was forced to admit the truth about their earlier claim that Dr David Fergusson was 'unhappy' with how pro-life groups were presenting his research. 
 Anyone listening to both interviews yesterday would have been ...

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May 9, 2013

Conceived in Rape: Pam Stenzel addresses Stormont

Precious Life organised a special meeting in Parliament Buildings in Belfast for Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly to hear the testimony of Pam Stenzel. Pam Stenzel is founder of ENLIGHTEN COMMUNICATIONS in Minnesota; and a member of “Save the 1” - a new group in the USA aimed ...

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May 9, 2013

C-case woman to take legal case against the State

The woman at the centre of the C case is to take a case against the State. The Irish Independent reports that: "Today, Mary is a 29-year-old mother of two, but 16 years ago she was the teenage Traveller at the centre of the controversial C Case who was taken to the UK for an abortion by health ...

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May 9, 2013

Top consultants challenge Peter Boylan on Savita inquest comments

11 top consultants have written to the papers to challenge Dr Peter Boylan's comments after the inquest into the death of Savita Halappanavar.  They wrote:  Sir, – The recent inquest on Savita Halappanavar has raised important issues about hospital infection in obstetrics. Much of ...

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April 28, 2013

113 psychiatrists disagree with abortion proposal

113 psychiatrists have signed a statement saying that legislation, which would allow for abortion as a treatment for threat of suicide, has no basis in medical evidence. Four leading psychiatrists who carried out the survey of around 300 psychiatrists in the country.  They are Dr Martin ...

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April 25, 2013

Boylan is wrong: Top experts comment on Savita case

Dr Peter Boylan's claim that Ireland's abortion laws prevented the correct treatment of Savita Halappanavar has been contradicted by top experts in Obstetrics and in Emergency Medicine. Professor Stephen Cusack, who is professor of Emergency Medicine in University College Cork, tweeted that 'Dr ...

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April 25, 2013

Unborn babies can be 'destroyed - Fine Gael proposal horrendous, worse than Clare Daly's Bill

Pro-life groups have described draft proposals to allow unborn children to be 'destroyed' as "horrendous, obscene and unworkable'. Niamh Ui Bhriain of the Life Institute said that the exceprt of the draft proposal contained a "horrendous passage spelling out that unborn childen can be ...

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April 25, 2013

Abortion motions for FF Ard Fheis this weekend

Six Fianna Fáil cumanns have put forward pro-life motions for the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis this coming weekend.

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