Posts tagged with 'Pro Life'

Watch video here: iTV.ie : https://itv.ie/high-court-judgement-on-unborn-rights-beyond-the-right-to-life-25-11-2016/

As explained by Orla O’Donnell, this High Court Judgement follows on Justice Richard Humphries judgement in July when he said unborn rights go beyond Article 40 3 3 (the 8th Amendment) and are also vindicated by Article 42A (as passed in the Children’s Referendum in 2012). The State recognises they are children as those after birth. This is consistent with the UN Convention of 1959 on the Rights of the Child which pledges to protect children BEFORE as well as AFTER birth.

The recent judgment of Mr Justice Richard Humphreys on the rights of unborn children, in IRM v Minister for Justice and Equality, on July 29th.
It has important implications for the protection of unborn children, not only in the context of abortion (which was not the focus of the case) but more generally. It raises a question as to how the Minister for Children is most effectively to discharge her
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