"We support women's rights too, but not at the expense of the lives of others." Image: prolifecampaign.ie The Supreme Court heard yesterday that Northern Irish women are "second class citizens" on abortion.This claim was made by Stephen Cragg QC, who is representing two women who want women from No...

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Liverpool's happiest baby. Image: Liverpool Echo The Liverpool Echo has shared this adorable image of a 30 week old baby, who was captured smiling in the womb when her mum went in for a 4D scan.Mother Aimee Fagan said that the baby, due in January, grinned from ear to ear whenever her three-year old...

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Babies killed in England by publicly funded abortions are being treated as second class citizens, said the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) today. The Society was responding to claims that Northern Irish women are "second-class citizens in abortion". This claim was made in the Su...

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?The case fell at the Court of Appeal- but the women were granted permission to bring the case to the Supreme Court. A Supreme Court challenge to allow women from Northern Ireland to access NHS-funded abortions is currently underway.The appeal is being brought by a mother and daughter who travelled ...

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This campaign from 2011 says "I understand that you are not yet ready for me, but give me up to the adoption agency, LET ME LIVE!" Hungary Today reports that the number of abortions in Hungary has dropped by a quarter since Prime Minister Viktor Orbán took office.According to the Parliamentary Stat...

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People with Down's syndrome and their families deliver a petition to the Health Secretary asking him to halt the implementation of NIPT. The Department of Health announced on Saturday that it has approved Non Invasive Pre-Natal Testing (NIPT) for use on the NHS, which campaigners say will increase t...

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Good Counsel interviews mothers they have helped to keep their babies The Catholic Herald has published a letter written by mothers who the Good Counsel Network helped to continue their pregnancies. In it, they explain how their voices are being ignored in the debate over buffer zones.SIR- We are wr...

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SPUC slams decision to screen out babies with Down’s syndrome with prenatal test The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned the Department of Health's decision to roll out the new Non Invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT), which campaigners say will increase the number of ab...

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Abortion pills ordered online were shown to put women's health at risk. The BBC reports that a woman was reported to police in Northern Ireland and charged in connection with using abortion pills after she sought medical help. No information about the woman, or details of the case, were given.The pu...

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The Act was signed into law on 27 October 1967, and came into force six months later. Today, Thursday 27th October, marks the 49th anniversary of the Abortion Act being signed into law.The bill that decriminalised abortion under certain grounds received Royal Assent on 27 October 1967. Although the ...

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Kathleen Rose with her parents Tracy and Thomas Harkin. Photo: Belfast Telegraph As abortion proponents protest outside Stormont and former Alliance leader David Ford seeks to introduce abortion in cases of "fatal foetal abnormality", a mother of a disabled child has spoken out against the use of th...

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John Smeaton, SPUC's chief executive said: "All unborn children and their mothers must be protected from the violence and injustice of abortion."Thursday 27th October marks the 49th Anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act becoming law. The bill, along with the acts such as the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish)...

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Baby "born twice" after miracle surgery outside the womb Lynlee Boemer meeting one of the surgeons who saved her life. Credit: Paul Vincent Kuntz/Texas Children's Hospital A baby was "born twice" after being taken out of her mother's womb for 20 minutes to perform surgery on her spine.The mother...

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Lord Shinkwin’s bill opposing abortion for disability debated in the House of Lords Lord Shinkwin asked peers to consider the issue from a disabled person's perspective. The Abortion (Disability Equality) Act, introduced by disabled peer Lord Shinkwin, received its second reading in the House of...

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If the Abortion Act singled out people like me for abortion, would I be happy? Posted by Paul Tully on 21 October 2016 Lord Shinkwin at the Don't Screen Us Out rally outside Parliament Today, 21 October 2016, the House of Lords will hear the second reading of the Abortion (Disability Equality) Bi...

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Lord Shinkwin at the Don't Screen Us Out rally outside ParliamentToday, , the House of Lords will hear the second reading of the Abortion (Disability Equality) Bill. The bill is being introduced by Lord Shinkwin, a peer who himself has a serious disability. It seeks to remove ground E, "that there i...

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Lord Shinkwin at the Don't Screen Us Out rally outside Parliament The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children comments on Lord Shinkwin’s Abortion (Disability Equality) Bill. Tomorrow, , the House of Lords will hear the second reading of the Abortion (Disability Equality) Bill. The bill is bei...

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Marie Stopes "pressures young mothers into having abortions" Shannon Skinner with baby Amelia, who survived the first stage of a medical abortion: "I call her our miracle baby because we just don’t know how she survived. She must have really wanted to be here." Photo: John Lawrence. The Daily Ma...

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Amnesty International has been campaigning to decriminalise abortion in Northern Ireland. Amnesty International has been accused by pro-life groups in Northern Ireland of campaigning to undermine human rights and discriminate against the most disabled.The comments come as representatives from Amnest...

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70% "support Northern Ireland abortion law change" says survey Amnesty International has been campaigning to decriminalise abortion in Northern Ireland. Amnesty International has published an opinion poll which claims that 70% of people in Northern Ireland support a change in abortion law, the B...

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