Tóibín will not back abortion motion at Sinn Fein ardfheis
Deputy leader Mary-Lou McDonald said she was “very strongly recommending” her party’s ardfheis this week backs the motion to address what she described as a “policy gap”.
Deputy leader Mary-Lou McDonald said she was “very strongly recommending” her party’s ardfheis this week backs the motion to address what she described as a “policy gap”.
On 10th December 2014, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission announced that it is to take the Department of Justice to the High Court to demand the legalisation of abortion.
The SDLP (Social Democratic and Labour Party) has strongly reiterated the party’s longstanding opposition to abortion.
A proposed change to the abortion law to legalise terminations in fatal foetal abnormality cases has been rejected by the Irish parliament.
Members of the British parliament today voted to make Britain the first country in the world to allow scientists to create three-parent genetically-engineered embryos, sometimes called “designer babies.”