Abortion in Ireland is only legal if the pregnant woman’s life is at risk, including risk of suicide, but public opinion has long been evolving.
Abortion
Posted inFaith, News
Advocates must use hands, hearts, heads to end abortion, Cardinal says
The theme of the 2017 Canadian march was “Life We Stand on Guard for Thee.”
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Pro-life goals need to be more ambitious than opposing abortion
As necessary as opposition to abortion and funding for it are, they are not sufficient pro-life goals, especially when achieving them eliminates support for other programs that support maternal health.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
How pro-choice activists (inadvertently) converted me to the pro-life cause
My conversion to the pro-life cause began, strangely enough, when I took part in a pro-choice march.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Litmus tests lead to mediocre politics and voter disengagement
The exclusion of pro-life Democratic candidates feeds cynicism about our money-driven political process.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Nancy Pelosi says pro-life Americans are welcome in Democratic Party
“Most of those people—my family, extended family—are not pro-choice. You think I’m kicking them out of the Democratic Party?”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Are pro-life Americans welcome in the Democratic Party? Depends who you ask.
A rally hosted by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for a Nebraska Democrat prompted a flurry of questions about the party’s pro-choice orthodoxy.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Abortion is proving that the Democratic Party can outdo Republicans in self-destruction
The expulsion of pro-life candidates may doom the Democrats to minority status.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Iowa House passes measure to ban abortions after 20 weeks
If it becomes law, Iowa would join 17 other states in banning almost all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Why HBOs ‘Abortion: Stories Women Tell’ fails the women it portrays
Instead of engaging women as persons, the film instrumentalizes them to push a political agenda.