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13th May 2022
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WATCH NOW: (#2) Don’t miss the opportunity to stand up for life at next week’s Regional Marches for Life! (#1)

LISTEN BACK: (#interview) Listen to Eilís Mulroy’s interview on Tipp FM from yesterday (#2)

WATCH NOW: Here's some footage you won't be seeing on RTÉ anytime soon! (#3)

RE (#Web) AD: Abortion debate in the US proves the issue is far from settled (#4)

REGISTER NOW: Communications Workshop on Explaining the Pro Life Position & Disability Discrimination on Wednesday, May 18th from 8PM to 9PM (#Comms)

ACTION ALERT: (#1) Send ready-to-go message to Minister for Health on link between ‘DIY’ home abortions and coercive abortion (#1)

ANNOUNCEMENT: Full Details on Regional Marches For Life taking place in May! (#mfl)

APPLY NOW: Virtual Internship with the PLC (#VS)
Don’t miss the opportunity to stand up for life at next week’s Regional Marches for Life! ()
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The National Women’s Council are pressing hard for the Government to start "monitoring" pro-life doctors to make sure they’re helping facilitate abortions. It is a truly terrifying development. The NWCI raised the issue in media interviews and at a recent meeting of the Oireachtas Health Committee.

At the Regional Marches for Life taking place next week, we will stand in solidarity with pro-life healthcare workers and push back against the attacks on freedom of conscience.

We will also shine a spotlight on Ireland’s spiralling abortion rate and call for resources to be put in place to support and inform women about positive alternatives to abortion.

If you live in one of the counties where the marches are happening or in a neighbouring county, please make an extra special effort to attend one of the marches. And if you live further afield and are toying with the idea of attending one of the marches, do come along! We look forward very much to seeing you there. They will be wonderful family friendly events in addition to being very focussed on the important issues featured.

Watch the latest promotional video for the marches here ([link removed])

The dates and locations are as follows:

Cork (City Centre) 20th May @6pm

Galway (Salthill) 21st May @3pm

Donegal (Bundoran) 22nd May @3pm

Register Now: www.marchforlife.ie
Listen to Eilís Mulroy’s interview on Tipp FM from yesterday (#1)
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Pro Life Campaign spokesperson Eilís Mulroy was interviewed yesterday morning on Tipp FM in the latest of a series of local and national media interviews that the PLC has participated in in recent weeks, discussing the Three Year Review of the abortion law, the possible overturning of Roe v Wade in the US and next week’s Regional Marches for Life.

You can listen back to yesterday’s interview here ([link removed])
Here's some footage you won't be seeing on RTÉ anytime soon! (#1)
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Watch the dangerous and unhinged goings-on of the pro-abortion movement in the US over the past week - footage that the Irish media would never show you. The incidents featured are in reaction to the news that the Supreme Court in the US may be on the verge of overturning Roe v Wade. If the clips presented here represented isolated incidents and were not representative of what happened over the last seven days, there would be no justification for showing them. But sadly that is not the case. Some viewers may find this footage disturbing.

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Abortion debate in the US proves the issue is far from settled (#1)
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Last week’s leak indicating that the US Supreme Court is on the verge of overturning the 1973 decision that legalised abortion across America has, not surprisingly, generated lots of media interest.

What’s missing from much of the reporting however is an even-handed assessment of what prompted such a dramatic move in a pro-life direction, assuming of course that the Supreme Court follows through and overturns Roe v Wade.

After almost 50 years of legal abortion in the US, it is only right that we should take a closer look at why so many people have changed their minds over the years and joined the pro-life movement.

Key among this group are women who regret their abortions and those with other harrowing stories, particularly regarding late term abortions, that have come to light in recent years.

Groups like Silent No More which consists of women who talk openly about their abortions have been hugely influential over the past decade or so in bringing home to people just how devastating the aftermath of abortion can be for some women.

Instead of exploring what has influenced the shift in public attitudes against abortion, media commentators more often than not engage in name calling, referring to members of the pro-life movement in the US as the “hard right”, “misogynistic”, and even “racist”. These lazy caricatures are profoundly unjust and unwarranted, yet they persist.

It adds nothing to public discourse to indulge in these sorts of smears. All it does is deprive the public of the opportunity to get an accurate picture of what’s actually going on.

Since the Roe v Wade decision in 1973, there have been over 60 million legal abortions performed in the US. Such a shockingly disturbing figure cannot be glibly explained away by simply invoking the “right to choose” mantra. It calls for something much deeper and reflective.

If, as anticipated, the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade in the coming weeks, it will mean that for the first time in almost 50 years the right to life of unborn babies can be protected once again in the United States.

If the 1973 decision falls, it will not lead to an outright ban on abortions in the US as President Biden and others have falsely tried to imply. Instead, it will leave it up to individual states in the US to set their own laws on the issue.

Last week’s leak has been used by pro-abortion campaigners to try and intimidate Supreme Court justices into changing their minds. The fact that the private homes of these justices have been picketed (leading to them being assigned 24/7 security in recent days) is an indication of how volatile things are becoming. Pro-life offices have been set ablaze and death threats have been issued to various individuals and groups associated with the pro-life movement. Albeit belatedly, President Biden condemned these appalling threats to personal safety.

The debate taking place in the US is not all that dissimilar to the debate on abortion that has been happening in Ireland. Ultimately, it comes down to the value we place on human life as a society. Those who campaigned for repeal of the Eighth Amendment in Ireland like to think of the issue as settled. But as the debate in the US shows, the issue is far from settled.

Pro-life marches are taking place in Cork, Galway and Bundoran on the weekend of 20-22 May to shine a spotlight on Ireland’s spiralling abortion rate and to call for proper resources to be put in place to support and inform women about positive alternatives to abortion.

Every abortion results in an unborn baby losing his/her life. In many instances, it also results in the woman regretting the decision for the rest of her life.

It is foolhardy therefore for senior members of government to think they can introduce legislation for wide-ranging abortion and then draw a veil over the issue forevermore.

It doesn’t matter how much they try to sanitise and justify the regime they have introduced, the truth about what abortion really entails can never be expunged or fully hidden from view.
Communications Workshop on Explaining the Pro Life Position & Disability Discrimination on Wednesday, May 18th from 8PM to 9PM (#1)
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Register Now for PLC Network Communications Workshop

Taking place on Wednesday the 18th of May from 8PM to 9PM online via Zoom.

The topic of this workshop will be Explaining the Pro Life Position & Disability Discrimination.

Participation is free but pre-registration is essential as limited places available. You can register instantly below.

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Send ready-to-go message to your local TDs on the link between ‘DIY’ home abortions and coercive abortion ()
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The Pro Life Campaign is strengthening its call to members of the Oireachtas to press the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly to stop sanctioning the dangerous practice of ‘DIY’ remote consultation home abortions.

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Full Details on Regional Marches For Life taking place in May! (#1)
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APPLY NOW - Virtual Internship with the PLC (#1)

Would you like to experience working with a pro-active Human Rights organisation?

If you would like, APPLY HERE ([link removed]) to our exciting virtual intern programme for students!
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Participants on the programme will have an opportunity to network with other young people and develop skills in advocacy, campaign management and project planning.

Internships run for one-week periods and are suitable for second level (Transition year or older) and third level students.

Each intern will do 4 hours supervised work each day and will be working on areas such as social media, contact with members of the movement nationwide, project planning and contributing to support work for women and their babies.

Internships are not paid, however expenses will be covered.

If you or a family member is interested, please complete the below form and we will be in touch with you presently. Placements are subject to availability.

Thank you!

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