ProLife CampaignAlmost 1,000 people packed out the Concert Hall in the RDS on Sunday for the 2017 Pro Life Campaign National Conference. An enthusiastic audience heard from national and international speakers at what may be the last Conference before a referendum on the 8th Amendment.
The Pro Life Campaign has accused Senator Catherine Noone of making “highly misleading” statements about how the Oireachtas Committee on abortion ended up so slanted against the pro-life position. At the weekend, committee Chairperson Senator Noone said the committee was having difficulty finding pro-life experts to present as witnesses.
The Pro Life Campaign in Ireland has said that with most of the focus of the abortion debate on repeal of the country’s last remaining constitutional for unborn babies, the 8th Amendment, the public “are being deprived of the opportunity to consider what precisely legalised abortion would involve.” The group was commenting following the release of new Amárach research showing that most of the public are totally unaware of basic facts regarding what legalised abortion has led to in countries like our nearest neighbour, England.
The Pro Life Campaign has said there is no real difference between “partial” or “full” repeal of the 8th Amendment since both options would strip unborn babies of all meaningful protections under the law.
Today marks the 34th anniversary of the passage of the 8th Amendment.
The Pro Life Campaign has questioned why Taoiseach Leo Varadkar felt compelled to inform Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about his plans on abortion during their official meeting yesterday.
The Pro Life Campaign has warmly welcomed the ruling of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in Northern Ireland vindicating pro-life group Both Lives Matter over its claim that 100,000 people are alive today in Northern Ireland as a direct result of Britain’s abortion laws not being extended to Northern Ireland.
The impartiality of the Citizens’ Assembly which was set up to discuss abortion in Ireland has been dealt a further blow by the news that the Chief Executive Officer of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Ann Furedi, is so happy that the British Medical Association recently voted to support the decriminalisation of abortion that she can’t stop humming the 1970s disco song “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now”.
The campaign to liberalise abortion took a further step forward today with the first sitting of the Government’s new Committee which is due to look at the recommendations by the recent Citizens’ Assembly.
