The Abortion Supervisory Committee’s latest report has expressed concerns over abortion consultants, their families and patients being the target of harrassment. The committee is particularly concerned that women seeking fertility assistance have been caught up in the anti-abortion protests. In particular, the Report singles out “harassment of medical staff is taking place in Invercargill resulting Read more
Have we as pro-life Catholics been wrong to invest the lion’s share of our time, talent and energy in the political battle against abortion over the past forty years? Or even if we have not been wrong the whole time, are we wrong now? Perhaps it is obvious that I believe the answer is yes. It Read more
Only one in eight of the couples and individuals who try to adopt children are approved by social workers, official figures revealed yesterday. The shocking statistics mean that more than 22,000 would-be adoptive parents vanish from the system every year. The figures were made public for the first time by the schools and children inspectorate Read more
Ireland contra mundum – or more accurately, mundus contra Hiberniam – seems to be the burden of shrill, not to say lurid headlines circling the globe since Wednesday of last week, when the story broke about the tragic death of a pregnant Indian woman in a Galway hospital on October 28. But the facts surrounding Read more
A Southland anti-abortion group will begin weekly protests outside Southland Hospital from next month. The demonstrations would be “peaceful and non-confrontational” and held on public land, Southlanders For Life spokesman and Winton Catholic parish priest Fr Vaughan Leslie said. The Southern District Health Board (SDHB) began a termination service at the hospital about two months Read more
The death of a pregnant woman who repeatedly asked for an abortion, but was told “this is a Catholic country”, has ignited the abortion debate in Ireland. Savita Halappanavar, a Hindu dentist originally from India, died of blood poisoning in Galway University Hospital. She was aged 31. Her husband, Praveen Halappanavar, told news media that Read more
A European Court of Human Rights decision ordering Poland to pay compensation for not helping a girl obtain an abortion four years ago has upset many in the predominantly Catholic country. The court, which has jurisdiction over 47 European countries, said Poland had violated the European Convention on Human Rights because the girl — who Read more
Pro Life group, Southlanders for Life, have denied the implication made in the media that their request to be given the names of the names of the staff of the Invercargill Abortion facility is in some way connected to the anonymous threat of violence against the facility and its staff made in an email to the Abortion Law Reform Association Read more
In New Zealand, the Southland District Health Board has been unable to find a doctor or nurses at the Southland Hospital to assist in terminating the lives of unborn children at the Hospital. In August, a senior paediatrician, Dr Vili Sotutu, resigned in protest against abortions, but was later re-employed after discussions with hospital authorities. Read more
A Catholic bishop in Belfast has expressed dismay over the scheduled opening of the first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland. Bishop Noel Treanor of Down and Connor, whose diocese includes Belfast, said he is dismayed that Marie Stopes International was scheduled to open a clinic in Belfast on October 18. “The opening of Read more