Anti-abortion activist faces legal action over new website
Ellen Coyne
February 11 2019
An anti-abortion activist is facing a legal challenge from a British abortion provider after he set up a website using a similar name.
Eamonn Murphy, who runs an unregulated Dublin crisis pregnancy agency which has given out misleading advice, had already been sent a cease and desist letter by the HSE after setting up a website under the same name as the official My Options crisis pregnancy phone line.
This anti-abortion hijacking of Black Lives Matter is cynical and offensive
Both Lives Matter has got away with a misleading ad. But using the language of human rights can’t hide its true agenda: subjugating women
Elizabeth Nelson
Friday 4 August 2017
It’s a fairly large number, 100,000, but nice and round. Easy to compute. Most of us could even divide it by 10, at a push. Apparently it is this convenient roundedness that led the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) this week to dismiss complaints about recent claims on a billboard that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws have saved “100,000” lives. In its statement, the ASA said: “We considered that 100,000 was a large, round number that readers would typically associate with estimates” – and was therefore unproblematic.
Continued at source: The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/04/anti-abortion-hijack-black-lives-matter-both-lives-matter-advert-northern-ireland
Watchdog dismisses complaints over abortion billboard campaign
The posters were put up in two locations in January
2 Aug 2017
Jack Quann
An advertising watchdog has found a billboard campaign on abortion was not misleading.
A poster by the pro-life campaign group, Both Lives Matter, appeared in two locations in Northern Ireland in January.
The poster featured the claim "100,000 people are alive today because of our laws on abortion. why change that?".
The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) says it received 14 complainants, challenging whether the claim was misleading and could be substantiated.
Continued at source: News Talk: http://www.newstalk.com/reader/47.301/102650/0/
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