Referring this week to the startling statistic that 133 boys are born for every 100 girls in China, Reggie Littlejohn, President of the human rights organisation Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, said: “Such a vast gender imbalance cannot be achieved naturally. It can only be achieved through the sex-selective abortion of baby girls – through gendercide.”

Last week, during their Spring General Meeting in Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, the Irish Catholic Bishops issued a statement in defence of life and offered their prayerful support for expectant mothers and their unborn children.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns misled the Dáil on Wednesday when she suggested to the Taoiseach that 240 Irish women travel to England each year for abortions when their babies were detected to have a life-limiting condition, when in fact a small minority of these women travelled for that reason over a five year period.

The Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario recently released the euthanasia report for the fourth quarter of 2025. It reveals that in Ontario there were 5,303 reported deaths from euthanasia in 2025, up from 4,944 in 2024, representing a 7.2% increase.

A new peer-reviewed article published by the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) examines three decades of progress in prenatal surgery for babies diagnosed with spina bifida, showing how these advances have improved treatment and dramatically improved quality of life outcomes.

A mother whose unborn son died after a crash has said TDs will publish a draft bill bearing her child’s name by the end of the month.

An 84-year-old Canadian woman says she was offered assisted suicide in an emergency room before doctors had even determined the cause of her pain.

It has been a truly remarkable and consequential week in Irish political life. There’s been ample coverage elsewhere of what took place, from the fuel protests and the blockade at the Whitegate refinery to the political fallout that ensued.

The sad passing of Moya Brennan on Monday came as a shock to many, even though she had spoken openly about her illness and the toll pulmonary fibrosis had taken on her health.