A prominent Irish priest has resigned from the board of Dublin’s Mater Misericordiae University hospital after the hospital announced it would allow abortions in compliance with Ireland’s new law. Father Kevin Doran told the Irish Catholic that he left the governing board because “I can’t reconcile my own conscience with the statement, largely because I Read more
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Ireland passes abortion law
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
Irish President Michael D. Higgins signed the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act into law on Tuesday, making abortion legal in cases where the mother’s life is at stake. Higgins said the passage of the law is a move toward “basic human rights.” Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore said it was “a historic moment” for Read more
Irish politicians vote for ‘Trojan horse’ abortion bill
Friday, July 5th, 2013
Irish politicians have overwhelmingly approved an abortion bill described by Cardinal Sean Brady as a legislative and political Trojan horse “which heralds a much more liberal and aggressive abortion regime in Ireland”. The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill — the first legislation allowing abortion in the Republic of Ireland — passed its second stage Read more
Cardinal Burke: No Communion for pro-abortion politicians
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
As the Irish Parliament prepares to consider a bill to legalise some abortions, the head of the Vatican’s canon law tribunal has said Catholic politicians who support the bill should be refused Communion in the hope of inspiring a “conversion of heart”. “There can be no question that the practice of abortion is among the Read more
Bishops respond to protests over Irish abortion law
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
While protesters in Ireland and India rally against the Irish abortion law following the death of a Hindu woman who was refused an abortion, Ireland’s Catholic bishops have affirmed that the Catholic Church “has never taught that the life of a child in the womb should be preferred to that of a mother”. The protests Read more
Court penalises Poland for abortion refusal
Friday, November 9th, 2012
A European Court of Human Rights decision ordering Poland to pay compensation for not helping a girl obtain an abortion four years ago has upset many in the predominantly Catholic country. The court, which has jurisdiction over 47 European countries, said Poland had violated the European Convention on Human Rights because the girl — who Read more
Abortion cases not open for review, Supreme Court judges rule
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012An anti-abortion group’s battle for a review of abortions has been dismissed by the Supreme Court. Right to Life had argued many abortions were wrongly approved on mental health grounds and called for the Abortion Supervisory Committee to investigate. The group had sought a judicial review of the committee’s assertion that it has no oversight Read more
Afterbirth abortion – the killing of the new born – should be permitted
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
A recently published article argues that since abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus’ health, after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled because: 1. Both fetuses and newborns do Read more
1 in 5 abortions performed for teenagers
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Recently released statistics show 16,630 abortions were performed in New Zealand in 2010; down from 17,550 in 2009. One in five were performed on teenagers 44% were performed after the first nine weeks of pregnancy. For 39% it was not their first abortion The overall rate dropped from 19.2 per thousand women in 2009 to 18.1 in 2010 The highest age-group rate (33 Read more
Unborn children have no right to life
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court judge’s ruling that unborn children do not have a right to life. It also dismissed comments made by the judge about many abortions being granted “on request” Right to Life sued the Abortion Supervisory Committee for allegedly failing to review whether certifying consultants were lawfully granting women Read more
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