Abortion

Though it’s none of their business

Second Bill introduced in past month on issue after March for Life rally hit out at left-wing parties’ attempts to ‘remove safeguards’

Public urged at March for Life rally to elect more TDs who oppose abortion

Social Democrats say ‘cooling off period’ lacks scientific basis

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Hannah McCann: ‘Maybe graphic novels were sniffed at in the past as not really reading, but they’re an important literary device’

Ruth Coppinger says 72-hour delay ‘does not apply to any other medical procedure that we have in law’

US ambassador Edward Walsh among audience at IRL Forum in Co Meath on Saturday

In wake of X case and 1992 referendum, fresh restrictions - including injunctions on travel - caused concern

Legislation passed second stage in previous Dáil but TDs decided by 73 to 71 to reject Bill

Girl told doctors she would ‘cut the baby out myself’ if termination not permitted

The crimewriter on her latest novel, The Silent Ones; how TV work helps pay the bills; and her love of David Brent

There seems to be little hope of her heralding a revival of social conservatism given that her political cohort isn’t even comfortable calling itself ‘conservative’

As a liberal, I felt Maria Steen’s election would have been a step backwards for the Ireland I believe in

Was Zappone more effective as an insider than as an activist? The answer is not always clear

The 2023 three year review on abortion called for guidelines to be developed on comfort care after a live birth after abortion

Event for Ireland’s youngest ever taoiseach attended by Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, among other politicians

Senior Fine Gael politicians are confident former minister for social affairs will not be beaten if country gets to know her as they do

No information on patient’s identity or reason for seeking abortion will be gathered

A new short story by Maya Kulukundis

Paul Muldoon and Kamala Sankaram’s new opera Custom of the Coast gives voice to Halappanavar and Bonny in powerful narratives that run alongside each other, until they collide unexpected ways

We collect statistics on where abortions happen in Ireland and under what part of the legislation, and little else. We have zero interest in knowing why women have them

Majority were early pregnancy terminations, while 108 carried out due to fatal foetal abnormality

Research demonstrates broad support for LGBTIQ+ people, women’s rights and abortion

Donald Tusk’s government has comfortable majority but new president could thwart liberal policy agenda

An empathic attempt to understand the women who sought abortions, and those who assisted them

Do you still go to Mass? Have you found religion later in life? Has your religious observance lapsed?

In the Philippines, where 80 per cent of the population is Catholic, popes are always revered. Francis, however, was especially well loved

Rite & Reason: Why are birth rates in freefall? Many factors, some economic, others religious, some social and personal, play a part

Clive Johnston disputes the charges on a devolution point and under the European Convention on Human Rights

Greens also likely to push controversial bill to reform German abortion law

Francis (88) has been in Rome’s Gemelli hospital for more than three weeks with a severe respiratory infection

Kaja Godek said homosexuality was a 'deviation' on a Polish talkshow in 2018

Women who choose not to have children still find themselves existing in a society that undermines them - but the tide is turning

His genius is to lull you into thinking he’s harmless

Protests were largely peaceful amid heightened security as police cars drove nearby

Healy-Raes say they will not be ‘whipped’ when it comes to ‘fundamental issues’ and ‘matters of conscience’

It is impossible to understand the former US president without taking seriously his faith, which underpinned his whole life, both public and private

Lack of affordable, accessible, quality childcare means women are often forced into part-time, more precarious work

The US president is a once-in-a-lifetime master manipulator of the unseen energies that sway the electorate