“Completely corrupt.”
Tánaiste Micheál Martin says he is “very conscious” of “commitments” made during the 8th Amendment referendum, but declines to say whether he belives reneging on the 3-day wait would be breaking a campaign promise. #gript
“Why should voters trust you?”: Tánaiste Micheál Martin is asked if his government intends to go back on campaign promises made during the 8th Amendment referendum regarding restrictions around abortion, like the 3-day wait. #gript
The idea that the taking of human life can be confined to restricted circumstances was always more than a little absurd.
“Not fair.”
Fatima Gunning looks at the top 3 misleading claims of the campaign to repeal the 8th amendment.
Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney was evasive when asked his views on the French President calling for abortion to be added to the EU Charter of Human Rights. The matter was raised in a Parliamentary Question submitted by Aontú leader Peadar Toibín TD. The question asked Minister Coveney “his views on the call by the […]
We were told, weren’t we, that repealing the 8th would make this a better, more caring, more compassionate country – especially for women. Three years since the referendum that’s certainly not the case. Last month, a heavily pregnant, homeless woman was beaten so savagely in Dublin city centre that she lost her baby. That pregnant women are homeless […]
A review of the 2018 Irish abortion legislation is scheduled for 2021. In a sane society, evidence for such a review would be routinely collected from the medics providing the abortion. In other countries, that is indeed what happens. There is some variation among these countries in the amount of data collected. But information about […]
Apart from delivering Cherish leaflets and attending a small number of meetings and the final rally, most of the huge effort that went into trying to trying to save the 8th amendment was unknown to me. I had been with Sinn Féin in Leinster House for many years and I am afraid to say I was […]
If you happen to be a disinterested observer of Ireland’s decades-long abortion debate, you could be forgiven for thinking that things unfolded something like this. First, Catholic Ireland implemented the oppressive 8th Amendment, designed to inflict moral dogmas on a helpless population. Then, despite many horrifying happenings in between, the last vanguard of the patriarchy […]
Two years ago, like 723,000 other people, I voted No to removing the 8th amendment from our constitution. I believed that preborn babies have a right to life, that women deserve better than abortion, and that the result of the referendum was the most shameful day in Ireland’s history. I still do. And the last two years […]