The Sinn Féin bill to abolish the reflection period passed second stage by 86 votes to 70 votes.

Their decision today to renege on that assurance – particularly so soon after the referendum – represents a massive breach of trust with voters.

Born weighing just 400 grams, baby Talia has overcome incredible challenges after entering the world at only 22 weeks and 5 days. Her birth was so sudden that she remained inside her amniotic sac, while her skin was thin and transparent due to her extreme prematurity.

Lord Moylan’s Complications from Abortions (Annual Report) Bill, which received its First Reading in the UK House of Lords on Tuesday, is a welcome attempt to bring greater transparency to the issue of abortion complications.

In what may prove to be one of the defining moments of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV this week delivered a powerful defence of the right to life before the Spanish Parliament.

A Florida Circuit Court judge has rejected Planned Parenthood’s attempt to dismiss a false
advertising lawsuit brought by the Florida Attorney General over the abortion giant’s claims that
chemical abortion drugs are “safer than Tylenol.”

It now emerges that the Canadian doctor we featured in last week’s edition of the Vital Signs newsletter for conducting a euthanasia assessment outside a coffee shop has also been disciplined by his provincial medical regulator after a patient who had been pronounced dead woke up following a botched euthanasia attempt.

Social Democrats TD Eoin Hayes has been scathing in his criticism of Oireachtas colleagues who opposed his party’s recent abortion bill, which sought to abolish the three-day waiting period before an abortion and to widen the grounds for late-term abortions.

The comments published in this newspaper following Breda O’Brien’s recent article from two prominent pro-abortion organisations, Start and IFPA, attempt to dismiss the value of the three-day wait for reflection before abortion.