Choice Ireland

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo , New Vision (Uganda)
In Bangkok

All developed and developing countries should work hands in hands, in technique or funding to reduce the number of unsafe abortion worldwide to levels in countries where abortion is legal.

By Catherine Shanahan and Orla Barry

Thursday, January 21, 2010

THREE-in-five 18-35 year olds believe abortion should be legalised, according to a sex survey which found one-in-four women has experienced an unplanned pregnancy.

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By Emma Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 15, 2010

Henry P. David, 86, a clinical psychologist whose research on abortion showed that unwanted children were more likely to experience long-term difficulties in school and life than those whose families had planned their births, died Dec. 31 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville [Maryland]. He had congestive heart failure.

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The Truth About Breast Cancer and Abortion
By Amie Newman
Created Jan 14 2010 - 7:00am

AP

MADRID — Lawmakers voted to ease Spain's abortion law Thursday, approving a bill to allow the procedure without restrictions up to 14 weeks.

The change would bring this traditionally Roman Catholic country in line with its more secular neighbors in northern Europe.

The measure now goes to the Senate, where passage is expected some time early next year.

Abortion reform was the last major pending issue in a bold reform agenda undertaken by Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who took power in 2004.

Una Mullally

by Liam Fay

Hands Off Ireland! was the slogan on placards waved by anti-abortion activists protesting outside the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg last week. The campaigners were directing the warning at judges hearing the legal challenge taken by three women who claim Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws endangered their health and violated their rights because they had to travel abroad to terminate their pregnancies.

DOCTORS treating pregnant women whose unborn babies have serious foetal abnormalities are afraid to refer them to expert facilities abroad because of fears of being accused of procuring an abortion.

Professor John Bonnar, the former chairman of the institute of obstetrics and gynaecology, said that Irish-based doctors were afraid that if they referred a patient to a foreign facility, they would be arrested and brought before the courts.

"It (a criminal prosecution) is not going to happen," Professor Bonnar told the Irish Independent.

Pro-life hatred so dominates the debate it's hard to imagine any real change following this bid to overturn the Irish abortion ban

by Fionola Meredith