# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 12 June, 2019
Tóibín was speaking to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar under Dáil privilege today.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Saturday 18 May, 2019
An external review is due to be carried out into the circumstances around the abortion.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Sunday 13 May, 2018
The government’s legal advice and the position of the courts on the Eighth Amendment have tied the hands of legislators in the past.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Friday 16 June, 2017
The public will vote on repealing the Eighth Amendment next year.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 14 June, 2017
How many more girls are our government prepared to abuse while they delay a referendum on the Eighth Amendment, asks Gerry Edwards.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 31 January, 2017
A caller into the Dublin Talks show was also said to have “made allusions to her complicity in what he considered to be murder”.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Thursday 10 November, 2016
# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Sunday 11 September, 2016
An Irish couple who are expecting a baby, and who received a diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality, write about their ordeal for TheJournal.ie.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Thursday 7 July, 2016
It was defeated by 95 votes to 45.
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And can it get passed?
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 6 July, 2016
“I do not want to terminate my baby’s life but he does not have one.”
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 5 July, 2016
Cabinet agrees not to take a position on bill tabled by TD Mick Wallace
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The bill is being tabled by Mick Wallace and is under discussion by Cabinet today.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Thursday 30 June, 2016
Fine Gael’s Kate O’Connell was speaking before the Dáil this evening.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Thursday 23 June, 2016
TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck attempts to resolve an argument over abortion facts on Tonight with Vincent Browne last night.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Saturday 27 February, 2016
Michelle and Vin Manley spent three hours with their son before he died – but they say there’s no right decision for couples faced with the same decision as they were.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Sunday 3 January, 2016
While over 90% of abortions in England are performed in the first trimester of pregnancy, fatal foetal abnormalities and pregnancies resulting from sexual violence are often the exception.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 2 December, 2015
Arlette Lyons writes about her experience of having to travel to Liverpool to have a termination when she found out her baby had no chance of survival.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 1 December, 2015
The Senator said that there are babies with “life-limiting conditions”.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Monday 30 November, 2015
“It does not protect morals to export the problem to another jurisdiction and then turn a blind eye.”
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Monday 19 October, 2015
The couple decided to highlight their story as part of Amnesty International’s campaign to decriminalise abortion in Ireland.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Monday 6 July, 2015
Labour has denied there is any connection between Michael McNamara’s removal from the health committee and his attempt to hold hearings on abortion.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 17 June, 2015
I never knew all the things that could go wrong with a pregnancy… until they happened. Life can throw your dreams upside down.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Friday 29 May, 2015
Michael McNamara’s not having a great week.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Saturday 25 April, 2015
The People Before Profit TD recounted his own personal tragedy in a Dáil debate in February.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Sunday 15 February, 2015
A change in the law could help to establish a culture where a ‘choice’ soon becomes an expectation.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Friday 13 February, 2015
81% of respondents to a recent poll indicated they wanted abortion allowed in cases of fatal foetal abnormality. Yet 88% of TDs abstained or voted no on the issue.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 10 February, 2015
The Dáil has voted to reject a bill providing for abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.
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The precedent set by the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act would see a raped woman questioned, put on trial, and forced to relive the worst experiences of her life.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Saturday 7 February, 2015
A bill proposed by Clare Daly will go before the Dáil on Tuesday.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Friday 6 February, 2015
However, the Health Minister said he would be advocating for Fine Gael to campaign for an abortion referendum in the next election.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 4 February, 2015
The government will vote against a bill from TD Clare Daly on termination for medical reasons.
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TDs are once again being asked to legislate for terminations for medical reasons.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Thursday 16 October, 2014
A poll this week found most Irish people favoured legalising abortion “where the foetus will not be born alive” – but that question is misleading, writes Niamh Ui Bhriain.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 26 August, 2014
There have been reports that Irish women have had to wait for up to a month for an appointment.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Monday 25 August, 2014
The Tánaiste is also in favour of repealing the 8th Amendment.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 29 July, 2014
Enshrined into law and sanctioned in social service provision is this attitude: women in Ireland are vessels to be filled and emptied at men’s discretion.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Tuesday 15 July, 2014
Do people campaign against families faced with the heartbreaking decision to turn off the life support machine of a loved one? Cases of fatal foetal abnormality are precisely the same.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
I noticed the consultant becoming quieter and more serious. ‘Have you ever heard of anencephaly?’ he said.
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# fatal-foetal-abnormality - Monday 24 March, 2014
I cried all day at the thought that I would have to go to a clinic in London and endure people throwing holy water and condoms at me because my nation would not help me when I needed it most.
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