28th April 2023
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REA (#BREAKING) D: Join us THIS Monday and March For Life Ireland in Dublin on May 1st 2023 (#m4l)

READ: (#mfl1) Extreme abortion review report causes government divisions (#1)

READ: (#IT4) Pain Relief in the review (#2)

READ (#irishtimes) : 55th anniversary of the British Abortion Act (#3)
Join us THIS Monday and March For Life Ireland in Dublin on May 1st 2023 (http://)

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With the release of the of the Government's three year review on abortion containing EXTREME recommendations around extending abortion and ending more human lives in Ireland, it's essential that we stand together in large numbers in Dublin this coming Bank Holiday Monday, May 1st for the March For Life.

The Pro-Life Movement must show a STRONG UNITED mobilisation in response to the recommendations contained in the Government's review, to draw attention to the rapidly increasing abortion rates in Ireland and to call for resources to be put in place to support and inform women about positive alternatives to abortion.
ON THE DAY
The event will be suitable for families, and together with an excellent lineup of speakers, we will use this opportunity to educate the public and people of goodwill about what is going on under the new abortion law!

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Did you know there are multiple buses going from around the country?
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Click Here to Read the 10 Main Takeaways on the Government's Abortion Report that you NEED TO KNOW! ([link removed])
Read the Three Year Review Report ([link removed])
Extreme abortion review report causes government divisions (http://)
The report from the review into Ireland’s abortion law was released on Tuesday. It was immediately obvious from the 139-page document that its recommendations were extreme in nature, fulfilling the wish-list of many pro-abortion activists. The report presented a largely one-sided narrative of the abortion regime in Ireland, criticising the three-day waiting period and doctors who exercise freedom of conscience.

Considering the report was the work of a statutory government-backed review, the document unforgivably presented incorrect data findings. On page 6, the author claimed that between 1st January 2019 and 31st December 2022, there were approximately 17,820 abortions in the Republic. This figure is grossly inaccurate, and underrates the real number by 40%.

Its recommendation to scrap the three-day reflection period is based on faulty and limited research. It cited a limited study produced by the pro-abortion START Doctors group which examined a narrow sample of under 500 women and determined just 2% did not return for an abortion. However, the author failed to engage with publicly available and much more far-ranging statistics from the HSE which showed that 3,951 women did not ultimately proceed from the first to the final abortion appointment. Official national statistics show that 17% of women who made an initial appointment did not ultimately opt to have an abortion, showing how the 2% cited by the report is totally inaccurate. Irrespective of whether this was an oversight or not, it certainly undermines the credibility of this review and its radical calls.

The government is already split over the report’s recommendations. Green Party members of government have urged that the three-day wait should be accepted; whereas both Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar have expressed reticence about removing the three-day wait, considering it was a key promise of the 2018 referendum. However, the government has committed to “expanding” abortion to more hospitals and regions.

This rupture within the government over the contentious report is the result of the extent to which the review process was exploited by pro-abortion advocate groups to push an extreme agenda. It is of utmost importance for pro-life citizens to make their voices heard on this review and to demand that the government refuse to adopt the radical proposals which stem from this deeply flawed document.
Pain Relief in the review (http://)
Despite the considerable attention and concern about the issue of the lack of foetal pain relief for unborn babies in late-term abortions, the three-year review report devoted a mere three paragraphs to this significant issue.

The Foetal Pain Relief Bill 2021 was rejected by the government partly leaning on the pretext that the review should be allowed “space” to do its work and review all aspects related to the abortion law. This legislative hands-off attitude from the government was contradicted by its own attempts to push forward censorship zones at a time when the review was still ongoing.

In the report, the author stated she was “not a medical practitioner” and therefore “this issue is not within her field of competence”. However, she claimed to have consulted “two fetal medicine specialists and one obstetrician” who claimed foetal pain relief was unneeded. She failed to explain the reason underlying this view. She clearly refused to actively seek the view of a doctor who supports administering precautionary pain relief. In addition, she failed to engage with the growing academic literature on this issue.

The dismissively small reference to the issue of foetal pain relief contrasted starkly with the entire section devoted to censorship zones, a fringe issue which seeks to discriminate against pro-life citizens. Considering the report’s lack of serious engagement on the pain relief issue, there is a need for the issue to be sincerely examined.
55th anniversary of the British Abortion Act (http://)
Since coming into effect 55 years ago in 1967, the British abortion law has seen 10,135,618 babies aborted. This is a harrowing example of the incredible scale of abortion’s impact on British society. The abortion statistics released for the year 2021 showed the highest abortion rate ever on record, with a total of 214,869 in that year alone. Each of these lives lost across 55 years should be mourned and remembered. It should be remembered that thousands of these lives lost were Irish babies.

In Ireland, in just four years of legal abortion, we have already seen nearly 30,000 babies aborted. In 2022, there were 8,500 abortions – the highest number on record and a considerable jump of 2,000 additional abortions from 2021. It means that for every seven babies born last year in Ireland, one was aborted. We’ve seen the ravaging social impact of abortion in Britain, and unfortunately Ireland is now treading the same destructive path.
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