Monday, Feb 6th 2012
Annually for the past nine years, the UK Department of Health have issued statistics showing a decline in the numbers of women giving Irish addresses when accessing abortion services in Britain. The 2010 figures, released earlier this week, revealed that 4,402 women gave Irish addresses to British clinics when they accessed abortion services - 12 [...]
During the summer of this year, the HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme (then known as the Crisis Pregnancy Agency) said that there had been a fall in the number of Irish women travelling abroad for abortion services. During 2001, at the height of the Celtic Tiger, 6,673 women gave Irish addresses to abortion clinics abroad when [...]
The Taoiseach’s comments on the issue of the proposed children’s rights referendum, which may yet not take place at all, will come as no surprise to any person who has followed the issue since his predecessor, Bertie Ahern first agreed that the children of this state needed their rights enshrined [...]
“The one thing I want for the country I love is a health system that is accessible to every citizen regardless of their wealth.”
- Mary Harney, Minister for Health and Children, 29th September 2004.
It is no understatement to say that the health system in this state lurches from crisis to crisis like some uncontrollable [...]
It is a sad fact of reality that women, despite making up 51% of the population, only hold less than 13% of seats in the Dáil, leaving Ireland ranking 59th out of 120 nations examined for parliamentary representation of women in 2006. Apologists for this pitiful situation will of course either a) blame the [...]
