On paper, we had finally made the great escape from British rule but, in reality, we never really got away.
The abortion protesters usually behave impeccably, often in fact prayerfully
550 abortions a month, it seems, is not enough for these people.
“You couldn’t make it up”, they say, when something ridiculous is reported in the media. As ridiculous government decisions go, one would struggle to find anything more ridiculous than the decision in 2018 to pay GP’s €450 per patient for early pregnancy abortions (requiring an average of 4 GP visits), at the same time as […]
The available statistical information on the Irish abortion regime is summarised in this article. The abortion regime put in place in 2018 was certainly not designed with information-gathering in mind, but we do now have two official reports from the Department of Health (2019 and 2020), and some additional information for 2019, the latter thanks […]
The Irish Times’s bad reporting on our abortion regime overlooks harm to women, the efficacy of the 3-day waiting period, and the horror of late-term abortions The Irish Times (with the honourable exception of columnist Breda O’Brien) seems determined to find no fault with our new abortion regime, other than perhaps that it does not go far […]
A parliamentary question was recently submitted to the Health Minister by Carol Nolan TD who asked an important question concerning abortion and women’s health and safety . She wanted to know “the number of patients that received post termination of pregnancy care in maternity hospitals from January 2019 to date; the number of those that […]
There are times when I have to pinch myself, when I read the concerns of journalists as expressed in our mainstream media, about the interaction between religion and politics in Ireland – and contrast it with the actual relationship between religion and politics in this country, as evidenced by social surveys. A recent survey, carried […]