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Breaking reports the three-year review will include "sweeping changes" underlines the importance of the March for Life in Dublin on May 1st and more!👣
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| Subject | Breaking reports the three-year review will include "sweeping changes" underlines the importance of the March for Life in Dublin on May 1st and more!👣 |
| Date | April 21, 2023 9:32 AM |
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BREAKING NEWS: Breaking reports the three-year review will include "sweeping changes" underlines the importance of the March for Life (#BREAKING)
SAVE THE DATE: Join us and March For Life Ireland in Dublin on May 1st 2023
READ: (#mfl1) Vice President Kamala Harris: Pro-life laws ‘attack America’ and endanger democracy (#mfl1)
READ: First meeting of the Assisted Dying Special Committee (#IT4)
READ: (#irishtimes) Minister Donnelly under fire from activists over exclusion zone “delays” (#IT)
SIGN UP: Join Team LoveBoth for the VHI Women's Mini-Marathon 2023 (#LB)
LISTEN: NEW We Are Human Podcast Episode Released! (#podcast)
ARCHIVES: Do you have pro-life material which could be historically relevant? (#history)
Breaking reports the three-year review will include "sweeping changes" underlines the importance of the March for Life (http://)
Reports today (21 April) suggested that the report of the three-year review would include "sweeping changes" to Ireland's abortion law. The proposals including 60 operative and 10 legislative changes would represent a complete departure from the basis on which people voted in the 2018 referendum. Although couched in academic language, the proposals are deeply extreme in nature and were driven by a fundamentally flawed process. The suggestion of ‘decriminalisation’ effectively makes the abortion law a toothless set of guidelines, meaning there may be no legal recourse to prevent an abortion from being performed shortly before birth.
The review should have been an opportunity to objectively analyse the broad impact of the abortion law. Last year we saw the highest number of abortions on record: 8,500 abortions. For every seven babies born last year, one was aborted. In just four years, we’ve seen nearly 30,000 Irish abortions. This huge rise should prompt serious reflection on the lack of safeguards and alternative pathways offered by state agencies to women in unplanned pregnancies apart from just abortion. We know the HSE MyOptions service is unequipped to offer information to women on alternatives to abortion.
It was apparent from the word go that the three-year review would be biased and flawed. Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly refused to meet any pro-life representatives, yet regularly met with pro-abortion campaigners. The credibility of the review was further undermined when he appointed a clique of academics, many with a conflict of interest due to their public history of pro-abortion campaigning, to head up the research strands of the review. Much of this research was profoundly flawed, as seen in the fact Catherine Conlon’s ‘UnPac’ report essentially recommended the removal of the required three-day waiting period yet failed to interview a single woman who availed of it and decided to have her baby. Only interviewing women who had an abortion was bound to produce an unrepresentative result. It ignored the experience of many of the women within the total of 3,951 who did not have an abortion after the three-day period for reflection elapsed (2019-21).
Leaks like this which indicate just how extreme the three-year review may be underline the need for pro-life citizens to make their voices heard. The upcoming March for Life on 1st May will therefore be a very important event to demonstrate how strong the pro-life movement is and that we will not be ignored. If the government and elected representatives believe they can steamroll these "sweeping changes" through the Oireachtas without a public backlash, they are sorely mistaken. Your attendance at the upcoming March for Life will help to show the government where thousands of people stand on this issue.
SAVE THE DATE: Join us and March For Life Ireland in Dublin on May 1st 2023 (http://)
More Information Here ([link removed])
Vice President Kamala Harris: Pro-life laws ‘attack America’ and endanger democracy (http://)
The same week which saw US president Joe Biden visit Knock in an internationally well-publicised visit, his sidekick, Kamala Harris, launched a blistering attack on pro-life policies as an attack on women and an attack on America itself.
The vice president’s remarks came as a response to the recent Texas ruling which halted the FDA’s approval for the mifepristone pill, one of the two pills involved in procuring a chemical abortion. Speaking at a rally of “little more than 100 people” in Los Angeles, Harris denounced the ruling as part of a process launched by “so-called extremist leaders” and an attack on democracy.
She also took aim at the US Supreme Court, the highest legal authority in America, to accuse its justices of “taking a constitutional right that has been recognised from the people of America.” President Biden has also been a staunch opponent of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v Wade, acknowledging the reality that the US Constitution does not include a right to abortion. Harris’ charged rhetoric is a clear statement of the Biden Administration’s pro-abortion agenda, something which was largely glossed over during his recent visit to Ireland.
The “hastily assembled” protest in Los Angeles which attracted a “moderate” crowd, according to the Associated Press, is part of a series of protests launched by pro-abortion groups in cities across the US in protest at the recent Texas ruling. At another rally in New York City, demonstrators “stood behind a sign with a four-letter expletive directed at Texas”.
First meeting of the Assisted Dying Special Committee (http://)
A private meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Assisted Dying was held on the evening of Tuesday 18^th April. The Committee is tasked with reviewing the issues of euthanasia and assisted dying, prompted by the private members bill introduced by People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny in 2020.
It was reported in RTÉ that independent Senator Rónán Mullen drew attention to the terms of reference of the committee, suggesting its wording should be clarified to explicitly state that it is open to the Committee to recommend no change to the existing law.
The Committee also discussed whether its title should in fact be altered to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Suicide.
It is understood that the majority of medical professionals and stakeholders are opposed to the legalisation of euthanasia, with thousands of medical professionals signing a statement of opposition to the 2020 private member’s bill.
The international trend clearly points towards the legalisation of euthanasia being followed by an explosion in the numbers availing of the “service”. Canada introduced euthanasia and assisted suicide in 2016, with 1,018 people in the first year being euthanised. By 2021, this figure had jumped to 10,064 cases of euthanised Canadians. This alarming 889% increase demonstrates how once euthanasia is legalised, it cheapens human life and leads to spiralling numbers of people considering suicide who would not otherwise do so.
It is hoped the Special Committee will listen carefully to the testimony of doctors, particularly those involved in palliative care, and not follow the same dangerous path as Canada and other countries.
Minister Donnelly under fire from activists over exclusion zone “delays” (http://)
On 18^th April, the Irish Examiner produced two articles on the subject of exclusion zones, or ‘safe access zones’ as it called the proposals to criminalise even the most minor expressions of support for the lives of unborn children within the broad vicinity of buildings which perform abortions. The reports focused on “anger” about the Minister for Health’s delays in introducing such policies.
We know the delays are certainly not the product of any ethical uncomfortableness on the part of Minister Donnelly with regards the impact of eroding the civil liberties and fundamental rights of Irish citizens. Rather the delay appears to stem from a complex legal web Minister Donnelly has wrapped himself in. In reply to a parliamentary question tabled by Deputy Michael Collins, it was revealed that between 5^th October 2022 and 16^th January 2023, the Minister for Health met with the attorney general on five occasions to iron out legal complexities related to the proposed exclusion zones bill.
The regularity of these meetings indicated that considerable legal difficulties have set back if not derailed government plans to legally discriminate against citizens of a particular ethical and moral viewpoint. Some pro-abortion activists, including even some TDs, cannot simply understand why the constitution and EHCR cannot be ridden over roughshod in their pursuit to discriminate against pro-life citizens.
Minister Donnelly has recently experienced a few instances of blowback arising from his endless humouring of pro-abortion radicals, including his public ‘fact-check’ of one of the activist-researchers he appointed to contribute to the three-year review who claimed ludicrously that the abortion system was on the verge of collapse due to doctors exercising freedom of conscience.
Join Team LoveBoth for the VHI Women's Mini-Marathon 2023 (http://)
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By taking part in the Mini Marathon and fundraising you will be supporting the work of the LoveBoth Project and helping pregnant women, new mothers in need, and their babies.
The VHI Women’s Mini Marathon is taking place in Dublin on Sunday June 4th. You can run, jog or walk the event as part of TEAM LOVEBOTH.
REGISTER and receive your sponsorship pack TODAY or sponsor the team at www.loveboth.ie/vhiwmm ([link removed])
NEW We Are Human Podcast Episode Released! ()
New Podcast Episodes Released!
We are Human, the podcast where we aim to empower, educate and inspire people on the pro-life issue.
In the new latest episode we will hear from Muireann Lynch and Ben Conroy from the Minimise Project about disability discrimination and how we can best communicate on the prolife issue.
Listen to the most recent podcast episodes here ([link removed])
Listen on Spotify here ([link removed])
Do you have pro-life material which could be historically relevant? ()
We are putting out a call for anyone in possession of any documents, photographs, correspondence, etc. relevant to the Irish pro-life movement throughout the decades. We are particularly keen to receive anything in your possession related to periods such as the 1983 referendum. A comprehensive history of the pro-life movement is yet to be written, but the historians of the future will need primary sources. We are asking for people to get in touch with the Pro Life Campaign (mailto:[email protected]) if they possess such material (no matter how old or dusty!) to ensure it is preserved now and not lost to the ages.
Follow us on social media!
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In this Issue...
BREAKING NEWS: Breaking reports the three-year review will include "sweeping changes" underlines the importance of the March for Life (#BREAKING)
SAVE THE DATE: Join us and March For Life Ireland in Dublin on May 1st 2023
READ: (#mfl1) Vice President Kamala Harris: Pro-life laws ‘attack America’ and endanger democracy (#mfl1)
READ: First meeting of the Assisted Dying Special Committee (#IT4)
READ: (#irishtimes) Minister Donnelly under fire from activists over exclusion zone “delays” (#IT)
SIGN UP: Join Team LoveBoth for the VHI Women's Mini-Marathon 2023 (#LB)
LISTEN: NEW We Are Human Podcast Episode Released! (#podcast)
ARCHIVES: Do you have pro-life material which could be historically relevant? (#history)
Breaking reports the three-year review will include "sweeping changes" underlines the importance of the March for Life (http://)
Reports today (21 April) suggested that the report of the three-year review would include "sweeping changes" to Ireland's abortion law. The proposals including 60 operative and 10 legislative changes would represent a complete departure from the basis on which people voted in the 2018 referendum. Although couched in academic language, the proposals are deeply extreme in nature and were driven by a fundamentally flawed process. The suggestion of ‘decriminalisation’ effectively makes the abortion law a toothless set of guidelines, meaning there may be no legal recourse to prevent an abortion from being performed shortly before birth.
The review should have been an opportunity to objectively analyse the broad impact of the abortion law. Last year we saw the highest number of abortions on record: 8,500 abortions. For every seven babies born last year, one was aborted. In just four years, we’ve seen nearly 30,000 Irish abortions. This huge rise should prompt serious reflection on the lack of safeguards and alternative pathways offered by state agencies to women in unplanned pregnancies apart from just abortion. We know the HSE MyOptions service is unequipped to offer information to women on alternatives to abortion.
It was apparent from the word go that the three-year review would be biased and flawed. Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly refused to meet any pro-life representatives, yet regularly met with pro-abortion campaigners. The credibility of the review was further undermined when he appointed a clique of academics, many with a conflict of interest due to their public history of pro-abortion campaigning, to head up the research strands of the review. Much of this research was profoundly flawed, as seen in the fact Catherine Conlon’s ‘UnPac’ report essentially recommended the removal of the required three-day waiting period yet failed to interview a single woman who availed of it and decided to have her baby. Only interviewing women who had an abortion was bound to produce an unrepresentative result. It ignored the experience of many of the women within the total of 3,951 who did not have an abortion after the three-day period for reflection elapsed (2019-21).
Leaks like this which indicate just how extreme the three-year review may be underline the need for pro-life citizens to make their voices heard. The upcoming March for Life on 1st May will therefore be a very important event to demonstrate how strong the pro-life movement is and that we will not be ignored. If the government and elected representatives believe they can steamroll these "sweeping changes" through the Oireachtas without a public backlash, they are sorely mistaken. Your attendance at the upcoming March for Life will help to show the government where thousands of people stand on this issue.
SAVE THE DATE: Join us and March For Life Ireland in Dublin on May 1st 2023 (http://)
More Information Here ([link removed])
Vice President Kamala Harris: Pro-life laws ‘attack America’ and endanger democracy (http://)
The same week which saw US president Joe Biden visit Knock in an internationally well-publicised visit, his sidekick, Kamala Harris, launched a blistering attack on pro-life policies as an attack on women and an attack on America itself.
The vice president’s remarks came as a response to the recent Texas ruling which halted the FDA’s approval for the mifepristone pill, one of the two pills involved in procuring a chemical abortion. Speaking at a rally of “little more than 100 people” in Los Angeles, Harris denounced the ruling as part of a process launched by “so-called extremist leaders” and an attack on democracy.
She also took aim at the US Supreme Court, the highest legal authority in America, to accuse its justices of “taking a constitutional right that has been recognised from the people of America.” President Biden has also been a staunch opponent of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v Wade, acknowledging the reality that the US Constitution does not include a right to abortion. Harris’ charged rhetoric is a clear statement of the Biden Administration’s pro-abortion agenda, something which was largely glossed over during his recent visit to Ireland.
The “hastily assembled” protest in Los Angeles which attracted a “moderate” crowd, according to the Associated Press, is part of a series of protests launched by pro-abortion groups in cities across the US in protest at the recent Texas ruling. At another rally in New York City, demonstrators “stood behind a sign with a four-letter expletive directed at Texas”.
First meeting of the Assisted Dying Special Committee (http://)
A private meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Assisted Dying was held on the evening of Tuesday 18^th April. The Committee is tasked with reviewing the issues of euthanasia and assisted dying, prompted by the private members bill introduced by People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny in 2020.
It was reported in RTÉ that independent Senator Rónán Mullen drew attention to the terms of reference of the committee, suggesting its wording should be clarified to explicitly state that it is open to the Committee to recommend no change to the existing law.
The Committee also discussed whether its title should in fact be altered to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Suicide.
It is understood that the majority of medical professionals and stakeholders are opposed to the legalisation of euthanasia, with thousands of medical professionals signing a statement of opposition to the 2020 private member’s bill.
The international trend clearly points towards the legalisation of euthanasia being followed by an explosion in the numbers availing of the “service”. Canada introduced euthanasia and assisted suicide in 2016, with 1,018 people in the first year being euthanised. By 2021, this figure had jumped to 10,064 cases of euthanised Canadians. This alarming 889% increase demonstrates how once euthanasia is legalised, it cheapens human life and leads to spiralling numbers of people considering suicide who would not otherwise do so.
It is hoped the Special Committee will listen carefully to the testimony of doctors, particularly those involved in palliative care, and not follow the same dangerous path as Canada and other countries.
Minister Donnelly under fire from activists over exclusion zone “delays” (http://)
On 18^th April, the Irish Examiner produced two articles on the subject of exclusion zones, or ‘safe access zones’ as it called the proposals to criminalise even the most minor expressions of support for the lives of unborn children within the broad vicinity of buildings which perform abortions. The reports focused on “anger” about the Minister for Health’s delays in introducing such policies.
We know the delays are certainly not the product of any ethical uncomfortableness on the part of Minister Donnelly with regards the impact of eroding the civil liberties and fundamental rights of Irish citizens. Rather the delay appears to stem from a complex legal web Minister Donnelly has wrapped himself in. In reply to a parliamentary question tabled by Deputy Michael Collins, it was revealed that between 5^th October 2022 and 16^th January 2023, the Minister for Health met with the attorney general on five occasions to iron out legal complexities related to the proposed exclusion zones bill.
The regularity of these meetings indicated that considerable legal difficulties have set back if not derailed government plans to legally discriminate against citizens of a particular ethical and moral viewpoint. Some pro-abortion activists, including even some TDs, cannot simply understand why the constitution and EHCR cannot be ridden over roughshod in their pursuit to discriminate against pro-life citizens.
Minister Donnelly has recently experienced a few instances of blowback arising from his endless humouring of pro-abortion radicals, including his public ‘fact-check’ of one of the activist-researchers he appointed to contribute to the three-year review who claimed ludicrously that the abortion system was on the verge of collapse due to doctors exercising freedom of conscience.
Join Team LoveBoth for the VHI Women's Mini-Marathon 2023 (http://)
[link removed]
By taking part in the Mini Marathon and fundraising you will be supporting the work of the LoveBoth Project and helping pregnant women, new mothers in need, and their babies.
The VHI Women’s Mini Marathon is taking place in Dublin on Sunday June 4th. You can run, jog or walk the event as part of TEAM LOVEBOTH.
REGISTER and receive your sponsorship pack TODAY or sponsor the team at www.loveboth.ie/vhiwmm ([link removed])
NEW We Are Human Podcast Episode Released! ()
New Podcast Episodes Released!
We are Human, the podcast where we aim to empower, educate and inspire people on the pro-life issue.
In the new latest episode we will hear from Muireann Lynch and Ben Conroy from the Minimise Project about disability discrimination and how we can best communicate on the prolife issue.
Listen to the most recent podcast episodes here ([link removed])
Listen on Spotify here ([link removed])
Do you have pro-life material which could be historically relevant? ()
We are putting out a call for anyone in possession of any documents, photographs, correspondence, etc. relevant to the Irish pro-life movement throughout the decades. We are particularly keen to receive anything in your possession related to periods such as the 1983 referendum. A comprehensive history of the pro-life movement is yet to be written, but the historians of the future will need primary sources. We are asking for people to get in touch with the Pro Life Campaign (mailto:[email protected]) if they possess such material (no matter how old or dusty!) to ensure it is preserved now and not lost to the ages.
Follow us on social media!
[link removed]
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mailto:[email protected]
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Vital Signs is the e-newsletter of the Pro Life Campaign. We hope you and your families are keeping well in these unusual times. This email is to update you on what we have been working on recently, including news stories, project updates, and details of upcoming events. If you want to get in touch with us please do so by emailing [email protected]
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