Altogether.
Pro-life campaigners outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin, within the last hour.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
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Flimsily-argued and poorly produced leaflets distributed by Clann Na bFinini (The Family Group) during the 1990 Presidential Election.
They were NOT dictating.
Your expert group report is here.
When it’s an early delivery.
Kind of.
You may have heard Pro-Life campaigner Caroline Simons (above) on RTE R1’s ‘Morning Ireland’ earlier speaking to Rachael English.
Caroline Simons: “Our first concern is that all women will be entitled to whatever intervention they need to deal with any complication of their pregnancy as I myself have availed of and is currently the practice in all the maternity hospitals within Ireland.”
Rachael English: “And if that includes a termination then, so be it?”
Simons: “Let’s be really clear, people have different understandings of that particular word, termination. All pregnancies terminate. Mine all terminated with interventions. Two of them were interventions before term in order to deal with the complications of pregnancy. If it involves or needs an early delivery that’s what a woman should have.”
Hmm.
Listen here
Hot off the press.
Clare Daly’s Medical Treatment (Termination Of Pregnancy In Case Of Risk To Life Of Pregnant Woman) No. 2 Bill 2012, which was moved in the Dáil on Wednesday, has arrived at the Oireachtas.
This is Ms Daly’s second time to bring such a bill before the Dáil this year.
Last April a similar bill was voted down. The list of TDs who voted Yes and No is here.
Ms Daly’s new bill includes an amendment, as requested by Minister for Health James Reilly.
So it should get the go ahead when it’s put to a vote next Wednesday, right?
Thanks anon.
Coming to a landline near you.
Unsolicited Automated Calls Being Made About Abortion (Krank.ie)
Via: Chris Tierney and Allan Cavanagh
Thanks Neil at Krank.ie
Meanwhile: 56,000 Pro-Life Calls Made To Fine Gael TDs Since Summer (Ronan McGreevy, Irish Times)
Also: How (and why) to complain about an unwanted political Automatic Phone Call
An audience member on RTE 1’s Frontline last night – introduced as a person with “medical experience” – argues against any new abortion legislation.
She’s a little bit hardcore.
Oh yes.
Dublin, 1992.
Khaki trousers with Doc Marten shoes.
Oona Tully writes:
I found these negatives in a pile of college notes last week and scanned them. Given the current re-visit to the abortion legislation in Ireland, I thought you might be interested to see that protests on the streets have been going on for some time. This one, in O’Connell Street in 1992, was against the ban on the provision of information on abortion services outside the State; it was in reaction to the X-case, plus it was in defiance of the Eighth Amendment of The Constitution.
The Thirteenth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment (both in 1992), most likely reacted to the X-case and not this protest. The amendments changed the information ban, by guaranteeing a pregnant woman’s right to freedom of travel and to information about abortion services available abroad respectively.
A case, not a protest it seems, will prompt the legislators.
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has expressed his distress at some of the reaction to the death of Savita Halappanavar. The archbishop challenged assertions that Ireland was not a safe country in which to be pregnant. “The facts show us we have in fact one of the lowest levels of maternal mortality in the world, which means that whatever practices we have are producing the results that we should respect,” he said.
The fact that Ireland had few maternal deaths showed that where conflicts arose over treatment options they have been resolved successfully, he added.
Minister for Health James Reilly said yesterday that a Government decision on providing clarity on abortion was unlikely before the new year.
Dr Reilly said he would be bringing the expert groups report on abortion to the Cabinet on Tuesday week but that consultation would be needed before a decision was reached.
Everyone relax. Bottler and the Bishop are on the case.
Archbishop defends record on pregnancy (Paul Cullen, Patsy McGarry, Kitty Holland, Irish Times)
(Sasko Lazarov, Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Too Soon?
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Minister for Health James Reilly is resisting pressure to commit to the introduction of legislation to clarify the legal situation governing terminations of pregnancy.
Dr Reilly said it would be improper of him to make such a commitment before he considered the report of his expert group on abortion.
He said he had given the report, which he received this week, a “quick glance” but had not had time to study it properly. After he had done this, he would bring it to Cabinet, he said yesterday.
Take your time there, Bottler.
It’s not like the world is watching in horror or anything.
Too soon to commit on abortion legislation, says Reilly (Paul Cullen, Kitty Holland, Harry McGee, Irish Times)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)