“Rights” Group Tries to Pressurise Ireland to Legalise Abortion
1st Feb 10
“Rights” Group Tries to Pressurise Ireland to Legalise Abortion
An international “human rights” organisation has called on the Irish Government to legalise abortion. A document by the pro-abortion group Human Rights Watch, accuses the Irish Government of violating a long list of human rights in its treatment of abortion and related issues, including the rights to “health, information, privacy, freedom from cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, life [!], equal protection under the law, and non-discrimination”.
The document, provocatively titled, A State of Isolation: Access to Abortion for Women in Ireland, says the Government’s actions in the face of the “need for abortion” have been “erratic and divisive”, and calls for the gutting of its...
Irish Centre for Human Rights Hosts Pro-Abortion Conference
17th Nov 09
And still on Irish universities! The self-styled Irish Centre for Human Rights at University College Galway, in conjunction with the Irish Family Planning Association (which is part of the International Planned Parenthood Federation), recently held a conference.
The topic was “Global and Local Perspectives on Abortion”, but it excluded the majority local pro-life perspective and...
IFPA Abortion Campaigning Called “Not Charitable”
18th May 09
IFPA Abortion Campaigning Called “Not Charitable”
James Scott, writing in the "Irish Independent" recently, criticised the case before the European Court of Human Rights “taken against our Government by three women, who are supported by our Irish Family Planning Association...