YD activist and NUIG Life Society Auditor, Maria Mahoney, has called on the Irish people to "have the courage to resist attacks on human life." Writing in the Irish Independent, the young pro-life leader said that she agreed that "a woman's choice to destroy her unborn child is founded on panic or ...
Youth Defence's pro-life newspaper adverts continue to produce a tremendous response from the public, but pro-abortion campaigners have reacted with fury to the success of the campaign, which spells out a simple fact: Abortion never saves a mother's life - it just kills a baby.
In the past week Youth Defence and the Life Institute has received a very strong response to our newspaper advertising campaign which spells out an incontrovertible fact: Abortion never saves a mother's life - it just kills a baby. Calls to the office, and queries on our website for further ...
Precious Life has commended the courageous decision by the Deputy of Northern Ireland’s national students' movement to resign over the organisation's abortion policy.
A striking new pro-life advertisement appears in The Irish Times and other newspapers today, and spells out the truth that "Abortion never saves a mother's life, it just kills a baby".
Next week Youth Defence's striking new advertising campaign will be launched in newspapers nationwide. We hope it will be a decisive factor in nailing the lie that claims abortion is ever medically necessary.
The Mullingar/Athlone Advertiser received a large number of complaints following the publication of an article by Maria Daly which described abortion as a “basic human right” and used the Murphy Report to somehow attempt to justify legalising the killing of babies.
After weeks of hard work, Precious Life say the Vote for Life campaign has produced results.
The Examiner and Herald newspapers have led attacks on Leo Varadkar after the Fine Gael TD, said in an interview that he opposed abortion. The Examiner led with an emotive headline: "Varadkar opposed to abortion for rape victims" while the Herald contacted a rape victim to prompt a response to the ...
Precious Life's new campaign urging the public to vote only for candidates who will oppose abortion in the forthcoming Westminster election is gathering speed as the date of the vote draws near.
The Life Institute has said that the Examiner newspaper's coverage of abortion is "imbalanced and unprofessional" and usually amounts to a promotion of abortion. Spokeswoman Niamh Ui Bhriain said that the Examiner was failing utterly in its professional duty because it was pursuing an agenda which ...
It is likely that Eamon Gilmore leader of Labour Party would use any electoral gains to "develop a new constitution" which would undermine the unborn child's right to life amongst other things
Pro-life advocates in Ireland have questionins the close association between the Catholic Church's pregnancy counseling service CURA, and the Crisis Pregnancy Agency and their so-called "Positive Options" programme.
The Life Institute has welcomed the results of a PLC/Millward Brown opinion poll which found that 70% of Irish people favoured retaining a prohibition on abortion, while allowing the existing practise of intervention to save a mother's life in accordance with a medical ethics.
In February the organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) came to Ireland to condemn the Irish people for our protection of human life. We were scolded, with much finger-wagging, by the self-styled guardians of human rights because we did not provide abortion as a solution to crisis pregnancies. Now ...
Precious Life have sent a big "Thank you" to everyone who responded to their Action Alert last Monday, calling for a NO vote in an online poll on the Irish website of Marie Stopes International - one of the largest abortion providers in the world. Their poll was asking "Should abortion be legal in ...
YD member Kate Cullen went undercover to a "Choice Ireland" conference recently and reports back from the poorly-attended event.
Leading pro-life groups Precious Life and Youth Defence have dismissed the results of a poll commissioned by one of the largest abortion providers in the world as "lies, damn lies, and statistics", and being based on "a deliberately spurious premise".
They may have the media in their pockets but pro-aborts in Ireland can't boast of any popular support from the Irish people. Their annual conference, organised by Choice Ireland, and held in Parnell Square last Saturday, attracted a measly 20 people - and two of those were Youth Defence members ...
Each year pro-life people gather to remember children killed by abortion, and in particular, to mark the 1992 Supreme Court ruling in the X case which sought to turn Ireland's pro-life constitution on its head.
By any standard RTE is unbecomingly unprofessional when it comes to abortion. Emotive pitches are frequently aired which favour abortion legislation, with barely a nod to the facts, to medical evidence, or to the emerging truth about the abortion industry. While Channel 4 and the New York Times ...
Youth Defence, has strongly criticized a self-styled human rights group which has called on the Irish government to legalise abortion in Ireland.
The Government has appointed a senior counsel who previously argued that a disabled unborn child was not an unborn child deserving constitutional protection to the Supreme Court. Barrister Donal O'Donnell was nominated straight from the Bar on to the Supreme Court - only the second time such a ...
In the past month, the reportage of the ABC case in the Irish media has involved a deliberate attempt to confuse legitimate medical treatments and abortion.
Thank you. Despite the many commitments of Christmas, and the havoc being caused by the artic chill, YD's new leaflet explaining the need to protect the human embryos has now reached EVERY constituency in Ireland.
Youth Defence has said that a sustained, nationwide response is now required to ensure that the government moves to protect the human embryo following last Tuesday's Supreme Court judgment in the RvR case which wiped out the legal rights of the human embryo outside the womb.
Embryo Case: Youth Defence has called on the government to respect the wishes of the people and to move to protect human life from the moment of conception. The pro-life organization made its call as the Supreme Court today dismissed an appeal by a mother of two against the High Court's refusal to ...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has reserved judgment on the ABC case which seeks to impose abortion on Ireland. The case is sponsored by the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) and the plaintiffs claim that our ban on abortion violates their human rights.
The Life Institute has written to the secretary of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children asking why the unrepresentative pro-abortion campaigners, Choice Ireland, were given a platform to make accusations against crisis pregnancy counsellors.
Members of Youth Defence are travelling to Strasbourg to hold a vigil outside the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) as the hearing of the ABC V Ireland case begins. They said that they were protesting the “profoundly undemocratic push by the abortion industry to seek the imposition of ...
We're very glad to pass on the good news that the Northside People newspaper has withdrawn all future advertising for the abortion agency Marie Stopes following numerous calls of complaint this week.
Young people who packed the pro-life youth conference held in Maynooth last weekend, were told that they needed to be pro-life "without compromise, without exception, and without apology". Dr Eoghan de Faoite of Youth Defence said that abortion was the human rights issue of their generation. "You ...
Precious Life has welcomed the High Court decision to order the withdrawal of abortion guidelines issued by the Department of Health (DHSSPS).
Pro-life supporters spoke up for life at last Thursday's conference in NUI Galway co-hosted by the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR) and the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) which exclusively featured pro-abortion speakers. Youth Defence members present said that apart from pro-life ...
Northern Ireland's leading pro-life group Precious Life are calling for a police investigation following the release of official figures which revealed that 92 abortions were carried out in Northern Ireland during 2008. The pro-life group has also challenged the Health Minister to explain the ...
The director of the Life Institute, Dr Seán Ó Domhnaill, has challenged the Irish Centre for Human Rights in NUI Galway to include a pro-life speaker in its line up for a conference to be held next Thursday dealing with abortion.
Precious Life held a two day Prayer Vigil outside the High Court in Belfast on 27 and 28th October in support of a legal challenge to Department of Health guidelines on abortion in Northern Ireland. The court case was brought by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) to seek a ...
Youth Defence has said that reports that up 50 per cent of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome at Dublin's Rotunda maternity hospital are being aborted reveal the "ugly nature of the abortion business which is totally lacking in compassion."
Many ezine readers will be familiar with the Irish charity Concern, who raise millions each year to help with Third World programs. Now that charity has chosen to promote abortion campaigner Ivana Bacik as one of their "Women of Concern" - a decision that has angered Concern donors who have ...
Cardinal Brady has hit out at attempts to introduce abortion and euthanasia to Ireland. Speaking at the opening of the national novena in Knock shrine, Co Mayo, the cardinal described the efforts of individuals and groups to introduce abortion to Ireland and the increased pressure to accede to ...
Two years ago Amnesty International lost thousands of supporters when it said it would adopt a new policy supporting abortion. Now, an Irish journalist has written that "Amnesty International has gone in recent years from being an organisation devoted to the rights of prisoners-of-conscience in ...
Pro-life leaders have demanded that the Health Service Executive answer urgent questions regarding the C case where the state brought a teenage rape victim to Britain for an abortion against her parents' wishes.
Youth Defence has said that a new campaign by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency to attack pro-life counseling has revealed a “sinister desire for censorship”. The CPA, which has received more than €35 million in taxpayer funding to date, had previously attempted to force counselling agencies such ...
The truth in regard to the appalling exploitation of the young girl at the centre of the 1997 C-case continues to be revealed. Today on the Pat Kenny Show, the girl, who is a now a young woman, told the nation that she didn’t even know what an abortion was when she was brought by social workers, ...
Last month, Mrs Nuala Conway, from Dunamore, gave birth to four girls and two boys 14 weeks prematurely. She told the Sunday Express newspaper that "These babies are a wonderful gift from God," in her first interview.
Three women volunteers dismissed five years ago by Cura, the Catholic Church's pregnancy agency, have been reinstated with an apology. The women were among four volunteers who refused to distribute leaflets they said gave contact numbers for abortion referrals.
The pro-life group Youth Defence has said that a Health Service Executive (HSE) statement which linked Ireland’s high waiting times for spinal operations with our ban on abortion, was both “shocking” and “completely out of touch with the ethos of the Irish people”.
In an explosive revelation, a young woman who was brought by the Irish state to have an abortion when she was just 13 years old, has now said that she was unaware of what abortion was at the time her baby was killed. She also told the Irish Star newspaper that when she awoke following the abortion ...
Twelve months after the Lisbon Treaty referendum, abortion has remained a hot topic for the EU elections.
Precious Life has welcomed the latest government statistics which have shown a drop in the number of women from Northern Ireland having abortions in Britain. The abortion statistics for 2008 revealed that the number fell by 170.
Youth Defence has welcomed the results of an opinion poll showing that the majority of Irish people wish to protect human life.
Despite short notice of the event, almost 150 people turned up to 'make a stand for life' in recognition and remembrance of over 7 million little babies killed by abortion in the 41 years since the implementation of that evil Act.
