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SPUC mounts legal challenge to UK Parliament’s abortion plans for Northern Ireland
May 05, 2021
Pro-life advocates are gearing up to challenge attempts by the British Parliament to impose drastic changes on Northern Ireland’s abortion policies. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has announced a legal action against the UK government’s grant of wide-ranging powers to Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis to implement “fully-funded abortion service” in Northern
UK government may push to legislate again on abortion in N Ireland
March 21, 2021
The regulations from Westminster, which came into force March 31, 2020, allow elective abortions up to 12 weeks of pregnancy; abortions up to 24 weeks in cases of risk to the mother's physical or mental health; and abortion without time limit in cases of severe fetal impairment or fatal fetal abnormality.
Police investigating sectarian graffiti on Catholic Church in Northern Ireland
February 01, 2021
Police have labelled sectarian graffiti found on a Catholic church in Northern Ireland as a hate crime. They are investigating accordingly.
“We made them feel guilty and ashamed”: Primate of All Ireland apologises to survivors of mother and baby homes
January 27, 2021
Following the publication of the report into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland, the Primate of All Ireland says he is "truly sorry" and asks for "the forgiveness of survivors".
Northern Ireland Executive call for independent victim-centred investigation of Mother and Baby homes and Magdalene Laundries
January 26, 2021
Northern Ireland's ruling Executive in Stormont have ordered an independent investigation in to Northern Ireland's mother and baby homes, following the publication of a report today.
Only seminary in Northern Ireland to close
July 19, 2018
The 185-year-old St Malachy's seminary opened just four years after Catholic Emancipation
The mutant ideology that’s driving MPs to impose abortion on Northern Ireland
June 14, 2018
The 'alt-liberals' are all-knowing, self-regarding and autocratic
Pro-lifers have little to celebrate from the Supreme Court’s Northern Ireland ruling
June 07, 2018
The law stays, but the judges' arguments leave grave cause for concern
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