pro-life

“You could mansplain in person, perhaps. Tip around to everyone’s house and have a chat,” Kate O’Connell quipped to Peadar Tóibín during the third and final day of the Select Committee on Health deliberation on the Health (Regulation of…

Episode 01: Against Repeal In this episode, Ciara meets a philosophy student who says he owes his life to the 8th Amendment, a Polish anarchist who hates the term anti-choice, a feminist student who believes 'abortion is the ultimate…

* This article is about adoption in America specifically. Last Thursday, The Washington Post published a piece written by a self-described “white Evangelical” named Aaron Halbert about the decision he and his wife Rachel (pictured…

Phew! What an election, that was fun. It was so long, I drank that much coffee and slept that little my face felt like I was wearing a tea tree peel-away face mask, which is less pleasant than it sounds. Every election that I've been…

A man is on life support this evening at the Mater Hospital in Dublin, where, despite the complete loss of brain stem function, doctors have detected viable sperm in his left testicle and, as the potential for human life is still present,…

“I am pro-life. With the exception of a doctor’s determination that the mother’s life would end if the pregnancy continued. I believe that no matter what mistakes we make as a society, we cannot condone ending another life.” “As a country…

The Dáil is set to dissolve next week ahead of this years' general election. While we don't know for sure exactly when #GE16 will take place, right now it's looking pretty likely to be February 26th. But what we do know for sure are some of…

Abortions happen. Even if you are one of the vocal few who fiercely believe that life begins at conception and a woman’s rights should be secondary to a foetus, you can’t deny that abortions happen, even in Ireland. Despite the fourteen…