No response from Minister Donnelly
Government Chief Whip Jack Chambers has just published the Legislative Programme for the summer 2021 Oireachtas session. The programme contains 43 bills for prioritisation by Government ministers and has been approved for publication following a meeting of the Cabinet. According to Mr Chamber’s the list of Bills been published following consultation with all government departments, […]
In early March, the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly confirmed to Cabinet that he had initiated a review of Ireland’s radical abortion law. It is important to note ,however, that this was less a political choice and more of a legal requirement given that Section 7 of the 2018 Act which legalised abortion clearly states: […]
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 […]
It is remarkable what politicians and political campaigners can get away with, when journalists fail to call them to account – and nowhere is this more evident than around the issue of abortion. In the abortion referendum in 2018, pro-choice campaigners were allowed to create the impression that legalising abortion was a women’s health issue, […]