TDs reject ‘means-test’ for access to abortion
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
By Juno McEnroe
Attempts to ban public funding for abortions could lead to means testing for those seeking terminations and discrimination against impoverished women, TDs have warned.
The comments came as the Dáil continued to debate the passage of legislation to enact the Yes vote to grant women access to abortions.
Simon Harris expected to compromise on number of changes in Abortion Bill
Friday, November 09, 2018
By Elaine Loughlin, Political Correspondent
Health Minister Simon Harris is expected to reach compromise on a number of changes put forward to the Abortion Bill.
The Termination of Pregnancy Bill passed Committee stage this week, however, Mr Harris will meet members of the Health Committee on Tuesday to thrash out a significant number of amendments which he promised to review before the Bill goes to Report stage.
Committee finishes considering abortion legislation
Thursday, 8 Nov 2018
By Ailbhe Conneely, RTÉ News Political reporter
Consideration of the Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill at Committee Stage has ended tonight following three days of examination.
The Select Oireachtas Committee on Health spent three days discussing 180 amendments to the legislation.
The Minister for Health did not accept any changes to the legislation.
Continued: https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2018/1108/1009600-abortion-legislation-committee/
Health Committee hearing on abortion bill amendments
Tuesday, 6 Nov 2018
By Ailbhe Conneely, RTÉ News Political reporter
The Oireachtas Select Committee on Health has concluded its first day of deliberation over amendments to the Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill.
The Committee has concluded ten sections out of 26 sections, in which there are 180 amendments.
So far the Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has not accepted any changes in the legislation.
Continued: https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2018/1106/1008921-oireachtas-pregnancy-bill/
Harris says abortion legislation doesn't mention the word 'abortion' for legal reasons
The Health Minister also said he wants the Bill to be inclusive of members of the trans community.
Nov 6, 2018
SIMON HARRIS HAS said the word ‘abortion’ is not mentioned in the Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill due to legal advice.
The Health Minister and members of the Oireachtas Health Committee are meeting today to consider amendments to the Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill.
A number of TDs want the wording of the Bill to be changed, with Solidarity–People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith saying not using the word ‘abortion’ is an “obfuscation and a deliberate ignoring what’s going on here”.
Continued: https://www.thejournal.ie/abortion-legislation-ireland-2-4324746-Nov2018/
Abortion: Women nine weeks pregnant may be referred to obstetrician
Minister appeals for colleagues to continue to be ‘constructive not obstructive’ in abortion debate
Thu, Oct 4, 2018
Marie O'Halloran
Women between nine and 12 weeks pregnant seeking an abortion may be referred to a consultant obstetrician, Minister for Health Simon Harris has indicated.
Mr Harris was introducing the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill, which gives effect to the outcome of the abortion referendum when 66 per cent of voters supported abortion. He said TDs were making history in bringing the legislation forward to allow for abortion services in Ireland and repealing the Eighth Amendment after 35 years in the Constitution.
Yes campaign’s outreach to middle ground delivered the landslide
Undecideds swung in huge numbers to Yes, as politicians struggled to keep up with pace of change
May 27, 2018
Pat Leahy
Politicians and politics are playing catch-up, following Friday’s vote. It happened before, with contraception, divorce and homosexuality. Now it has happened with abortion.
It’s not so much that the vote will change our society, but rather that it signals that society has already changed. It has conceded to women power over their own lives that had been previously withheld by the State.
How the Yes and No sides won and lost the abortion referendum
Harry McGee: Smiling Savita portraits proclaiming a new reality for Ireland
May 26, 2018
Harry McGee Political Correspondent
In the last few days of the referendum campaign on the Eight Amendment dozens of small posters appeared around Dublin.
The image was of Savita Halappanavar, instantly recognisable from her thick dark hair, wide smile, smiling eyes, and the Bindi dot on the forehead. The message contained one word: Yes. They were striking in their simplicity and directness.
The Savita case (read Kitty Holland’s report from 2012 here) was never too far away from people’s minds during the eight weeks that this extraordinary referendum campaign seeped into Irish public consciousness on doorsteps, in the streets, in the media, or on the airwaves… right up to polling day.
Fintan O’Toole: 8th Amendment demands punishment for women
Constitutional ban means Ireland too extreme even for mainstream social conservatives
April 30, 2018
Fintan O'Toole
I’m not sure people who want to defend the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution know how extreme their position is. Extreme, that is to say, not by the standards of those of us who always opposed it and would like it to be repealed, but even by the standards of mainstream social conservatism.
The Eighth is, in one crucial respect, on the lunatic fringe of anti-abortion activism. This is because, as has been made clear in recent years, it does not merely outlaw abortion in all but a very small range of circumstances. It does something else, something that most sensible conservatives regard as repugnant – it demands severe punishment for women who have abortions. There is no way around this: while the Eighth is in place, Ireland is committed to treating abortion, not just as a moral wrong, but as a crime more serious than, for example, child rape.
People before Profit wants abortion as early and as late as needed
Party will support Government’s proposition for abortion within first trimester
April 27, 2018
Sarah Bardon
Any legislation that replaces the Eighth Amendment should not be reconsidered for a Dáil term, People before Profit has said.
The party launched its campaign to remove Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution in the forthcoming referendum on May 25th.
Every member of the party is canvassing for a Yes vote and its message is one of trusting women and giving them the choice, it said.
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