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RTE news coverage of the 2018 8th Amendment Referendum on removing the right to life of the unborn – iTV.ie
High Court Judgement on unborn rights beyond the Right to Life 25-11-2016 – iTV.ie
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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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Behind Closed Doors – The Grim Reality of abortion (BBC Panorama 1996) – iTV.ie
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WARNING: THIS PROGRAMME COULD BE DEEPLY UPSETTING FOR MANY PEOPLE. HOWEVER, FOR THOSE CONTEMPLATING IN IRELAND THE REMOVAL OF THE 8TH AMENDMENT THAT PROTECTS THE RIGHT TO LIFE OF THE UNBORN, THEY NEED TO SEE THIS.
This Programme deals with the terrible situations doctors and their women patients find themselves in when it comes to the deliberate ending of lives in the womb. The consequences of the ethics of relativism are brutally exposed and doctors are asked to perform “operations” they feel under great pressure to do while definitions of “abnormality” are increasingly widened to the point of such triviality as to be meaningless. Women are increasingly put in awful dilemmas and nobody really cares for them deep down. Its just a business. Sadly, in the 20 years since this programme was made, abortions in Britain have INCREASED from 181,860 in 1996 to 197,048 in 2014. Nobod
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