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.

A Kentucky man has been arrested after allegedly replacing his pregnant girlfriend’s medication with an abortion drug without her knowledge.

There were 18,783 abortions in Scotland in 2025, the highest on record.

The death of Thomas Dillon through Canada’s MAiD programme has intensified debate over the country’s euthanasia laws and the negative impact it’s having on vulnerable patients facing mental-health and social struggles.

In keeping with his leadership style since 2011, Micheál Martin has again given preference to a member of his parliamentary party who promotes a pro-abortion agenda, through the appointment yesterday of Fianna Fáil TD Catherine Ardagh as Minister of State at the Department of Justice.

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.