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Accuracy of early foetal screening challenged

Women must be given full and proper details of the true accuracy of tests designed to screen for foetal abnormalities, including life-limiting conditions, maternity hospitals and units around the country have been told by the HSE’s head of women and infants health programme, Dr Peter McKenna. Dr McKenna sent a letter to the hospitals and...

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Thousands attended the 2019 Rally for Life

Thousands of people attended the 2019 Rally for Life in Dublin on Saturday 6th July, showing that the prolife movement is alive and well after the abortion referendum. Niamh Uí Bhriain, a member of organising committee, said people wanted to “continue to stand for life.” Archbishop Eamon Martin was among the participants. “I march today because...

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Funding of Church schools is commonplace across Europe

By Dr Angelo Bottone

The impression is often given that there is something very and unusual, not to mention undemocratic, about religious schools receiving public funds. In fact, it is absolutely normal. What is unusual is faith schools receiving no public funds.  What is more, the Irish education system is one of the freest in the world, that is,...

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New FG childcare proposal means stay-at-home parents lose out again

By Patrick Fitzgerald

The hopes of stay-at-home parents to get the support and recognition they deserve were again dashed as new Fine Gael childcare proposals aim to help working parents who employ childminders, but not parents who give up work to mind their own children themselves. This is despite opinion polls showing a big majority of voters believes...

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Council of Europe body rejects pro-surrogacy report

A report which sought to support greater availability of surrogacy across Europe has been rejected by a key committee of the Council of Europe. Following consideration of the report, ‘Human Rights and ethical issues related to Surrogacy’, the Council’s Social Affairs Committee struck down a draft resolution on the issue, meaning the Council’s opposition to...

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US House of Representatives unanimously declares Islamic State actions ‘genocide’

The US House of Representatives has voted unanimously to label Islamic State (ISIS) actions against Christians and other religious minorities as ‘genocide’. A resolution sponsored by Republican Congressman Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, was passed by 393-0. The vote was taken just ahead of a deadline set for the State department to declare whether it too would...

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Bring fatally handicapped babies to term for their organs urges health service

Mothers whose unborn babies will die at or soon after birth will be urged by the National Health Service in the UK to carry their children to full term for the purpose of using their organs after death. According to The Mirror newspaper, during the annual meeting of the British Transplant Society in Glasgow, details of the NHS...

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Irish Bishops reaffirm the right to life of the unborn Author: Admin

The Irish Catholic Bishops have restated their opposition to any attempt to weaken the protection for unborn life during their Spring General Meeting. Gathered in Maynooth for the first time since the General Election heard numerous promises to repeal the Constitutional protection for the unborn, the country’s prelates discussed how Irish society should seek to promote a culture of life and...

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US moves to declare IS slaughter of Christians as genocide

America’s House Foreign Affairs Committee has adopted a resolution describing as ‘genocide’ the slaughter of Christians by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in the Middle East. In a unanimous decision, the committee moved to “expresses the sense of Congress that the atrocities committed by ISIS against Christians, Yazidis, and other ethnic and religious minorities constitute war crimes,...

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Majority in Brazil reject abortion as answer to Zika virus

The majority of people in Brazil oppose abortion on grounds of microcephaly, a condition which causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads, a new survey has revealed. An increase in cases of microcephaly has been linked to the spread of the Zika virus, which causes flu-like symptoms and usually clears up in a week. The possible,...

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