Category: Ireland

By Life Institute A Private Members Bill from Gino Kenny, a member of the Dáil (the lower house of the Irish Parliament), seeking to legalise Assisted Suicide, is set to be heard Thursday.    The Bill proposes to make it legal for a medical practitioner to “enable” a person to end his or her own life.   As …

By Right to Life UK Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) spent €2.9 million [$3,836,990] providing medical abortions through General Practitioners (GPs]  in 2019, it has been revealed. The figure, which was provided to Carol Nolan TD in response to a parliamentary question, only represents abortions that took place in the first nine weeks of pregnancy or …

By Secular Pro-Life In May of 2018, Ireland tragically repealed the Eighth Amendment from its constitution, which had protected the right to life for children in the womb. The Irish abortion industry began operating in January of last year. About a month ago, the first official statistics showing the impact of repeal were released. Not …

By Máirín de Barra Editor’s note. During a governmental crisis in Northern Ireland, the British Parliament passed The Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020, It “allows abortion on demand up to 12 weeks of pregnancy; abortions up to 24 weeks for the mother’s physical or mental health; and abortion without time limit in cases of severe …

 By Dave Andrusko By a vote of 46-40, the Northern Ireland Assembly voted Tuesday “in favor of a motion rejecting the ‘imposition’ of abortion legislation by the Westminster parliament,” The Catholic News Agency [CNA] reported. “The Abortion Regulations 2020, imposed by the British Parliament during a governmental crisis in Northern Ireland, permits the unrestricted killing of …

By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Editor’s note. During a governmental crisis in Northern Ireland, the British Parliament passed The Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020, It “allows abortion on demand up to 12 weeks of pregnancy; abortions up to 24 weeks for the mother’s physical or mental health; and abortion without time limit …

‘The Government stands ready to provide whatever support we can to the Department of Health in Northern Ireland to commission full abortion services,’ Northern Ireland’s secretary of state declared. By SPUC—The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has declared that more power will be exerted onto Northern …

By Dave Andrusko Talk about vindication! Pro-lifers in Northern Ireland blasted the proposed abortion “regulations” on any number of grounds, besides the two obvious facts  that Northern Ireland is a very pro-life nation and that the abortion “regulations” are far more wide-open than the official line would have the public believe. They bashed the lack …

Editor’s note. This is a brief excerpt from a post that appeared at Family & Life and is reposted with permission. It was good to see the pro-abortion flag bearers of Fine Gael [an Irish political party] punished by the voters. The odious Minister for Health, Simon Harris survived in Wicklow but had to wait …

By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Irish members of the lower house of the Irish Parliament(TDs), many of whom were responsible for the implementation of abortion in Ireland through the repeal of the eighth amendment, have lost their seats in the 2020 general election. Michael Robinson, SPUC Director of Communications, said: “It …

By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children UK health-bodies have recommended that unborn children in Northern Ireland could be killed for any reason until 24 weeks without restriction.  Responding to the ongoing framework for abortion in Northern Ireland, UK health bodies have agreed that unborn children could be killed by abortion without restriction …

By Paul Smeaton, LifeSiteNews BELFAST, Northern Ireland, December 2, 2019 – Thousands gathered outside the parliament buildings in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Saturday in protest against the region’s new abortion laws, which came into force in October. Since 1967, Northern Ireland has been the only part of the United Kingdom (UK) where abortion has remained …