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.

 Niamh Uí Bhriain of the Life Institute (formerly Mother and Child Campaign) wrote:

I see the Irish Times has reported that representatives of the organisation Choice Ireland, which enjoys no significant public support, was invited to make a presentation to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children. They then used that opportunity to make allegations concerning crisis pregnancy counsellors and to promote their case for legislative change.

I would like to know:

1. Who issued the invitation to Choice Ireland to make this presentation?
2. Is the Joint Committee on Health and Children now going to afford a right to reply to the persons and/or agencies against whom these allegations have been made?
3. Has the Committee heard from other persons who have been negatively affected by their experiences with abortion referral agencies in Ireland?

I await your reply.

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