Abortion opponents to fight for burials in bill on terminations
Ellen Coyne, Senior Ireland Reporter
October 3 2018
Anti-abortion campaigners are lobbying to make it mandatory for a burial to be held after a pregnancy is terminated.
Activists have been urged to “visit” TDs and put pressure on them to make abortion law as restrictive as possible, making it mandatory for women to be told about adoption and parenting, and to be offered an ultrasound scan before they can access a termination.
Anti-abortion group plans media assault
Aaron Rogan, Senior Ireland Reporter
September 17 2018
A leading anti-abortion group is planning to launch a media platform in response to the result of the referendum on Eighth Amendment in May, a letter to supporters has revealed.
The Life Institute, which ran the Save the 8th campaign, sent its members a 13-page document detailing how it lost the referendum and how it would respond. “Plans for a serious collaboration to establish a new media platform are being put in place,” it said.
Continued: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anti-abortion-group-plans-media-assault-npfhjxh6v
Foreign and 'alt-right' activists target Irish voters on Facebook ahead of abortion referendum
Claire Provost and Lara Whyte
25 April 2018
New data shows how social media has become a battleground in a transatlantic backlash against abortion rights for Irish women.
Under Irish law, foreign citizens and groups are not allowed to make donations to Irish campaign groups. But these rules don't apply to advertising on social media platforms, prompting campaigners to call for an urgent change in the law
Repeal of the Eighth ‘will constitute consent’ for liberal abortion regime
Save the 8th tells ‘Irish Times’ podcast most voters unaware of Yes vote implications
April 18, 2018
Sarah Bardon
Repealing the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution will constitute consent for Ireland to have a “liberal abortion regime”, the Save the 8th campaign has said.
Speaking on The Irish Times’s Inside Politics podcast, the campaign’s communications director, John McGuirk, said many people were unaware of the implications of a vote for repeal. Most voters believed they were supporting legislation allowing for abortions in cases of rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormalities, not terminations of “healthy babies of healthy mothers up to 12 weeks and beyond”, he claimed.
Repeal campaigner accuses anti-abortion campaigner of ‘sustained attack’
Janet O’Sullivan issues statement to the media in relation to Save the 8th spokesman
Fri, Apr 13, 2018
Colin Gleeson
A prominent campaigner for the repeal side in the upcoming abortion referendum has accused the spokesman of the Save the 8th campaign of mounting a “sustained attack” on her through social media.
In a statement on Friday, Janet O’Sullivan, who also goes by Janet Ní Shúilleabháin, said the dispute centred on remarks she made on Twitter following the death of former Fine Gael TD Peter Mathews.
Irish abortion referendum: Every vote counts in emotive poll
By Shane Harrison, BBC NI Dublin correspondent
22 February 2018
It is a cold morning despite the sunshine, and snow lines the grotto behind the Catholic church at Granard, County Longford, in the Irish midlands.
It was here beneath the gaze of a statue of the Virgin Mary on a similar January day that Ann Lovett, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, died giving birth to a baby son.
She and her child died in 1984.
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