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A NUMBER OF pro-choice campaign groups will be staging a rally at the Spire on Dublin’s O’Connell Street this afternoon.
Around two thousand people attended a similar rally in the city centre on Wednesday evening to call for the a repeal of the contentious 8th Amendment of the Constitution.
The issue of abortion has been placed back in the spotlight in recent days in the wake of publicity surrounding the case of a young woman who who had a C-section at 25 weeks of pregnancy.
The HSE is due to carry out an inquiry into the case, which involved a woman who said she had been raped before arriving in Ireland.
She discovered she was pregnant while undergoing a medical exam here, and requested information about abortion services.
She said she was subsequently was seen by psychiatrists and underwent a Caesarean section.
In a statement on Monday, the HSE said its Director General had requested a report that “establishes all of the facts surrounding the care given to a woman who had her pregnancy ended pursuant to the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013″.
Choice Ireland, Actions for Choice, the Abortion Rights Campaign and the Association for Improvement of Maternity Services in Ireland are amongst the groups taking part in today’s rally.
It begins at 2pm at the Spire, with a march to the Deparment of Health at Hawkins Street then planned, followed by a rally at the Kildare Street entrance to Leinster House.
Speakers will include representatives of Doctors for Choice.
The Pro-Life Campaign also held a vigil outside Leinster House last evening. Organisers said the event was being staged to “challenge the undignified clamour from pro-choice advocates for more abortion as a premature baby struggles for life”.
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He sounds like great craic
He must be a blueshirt.
I wonder could we get him over here ? Savings of about €150k on salary and he will clean up crime as well !
This geriatric tosser wont stand up to any real criminals. Hes just another dictator who’ll be hard on citizens while he lives off backhanders from organised crime. Where are all the assassins gone?
They’re off making a film with Michael Fassbender.
Makes Donald sound like a pinky left liberal.
Hillary can supply him with the arms and ammo from her ISIS stash
Could do with him in Ireland !!
Snipers should be brought in here to sort out the gangland problem
Sounds more like a dictator!
Interesting approach good luck with that
Just rhink about this for a minute. If parents let their kids out at night he will jail the parents. So who will look after the kids then? The State? Who will pay for that? It just demonstrates the kind of knee jerk red neck thinking of this moron. He doesn’t fight crime he just gets the State to commit crime instead of the “private sector”. Murders become state sanctioned executions and robberies become “contributions”. He is definitely a dictator in the making and the people of the Phillipines will dearly regret electing him.
Or maybe it will stop parents allowing their children out at night..
he has been doing this for 20 years in davao. we have a Penal code. laws of the land that protects minors from abuse and neglect. before we assume lets read the facts first.
People on here seem to forget he was freely elected with a massive majority of the vote. I know many are opposed to the Death Penalty. But look at what crimes he is proposing to introduce it for. Murder, Terrorism, Rape, Child Molestation, Armed Robbery and Drug Smuggling/Dealing. All crimes many on here have said should be dealt with in the most draconian manner. And how many times have we read stories of feral kids here roaming in packs, attacking frontline emergency personnel and have read comments about making the parents pay. As for his shoot to kill policy. Simple solution, don’t resist being arrested.
And it’s that simple is it?
Yes Deborah, it is that simple.
Do you really think drug dealers/smugglers should be hung?
Yes Mick, you are that simple
I never pretended to be complicated Ross. Only the pretentious try to be.
Hi Mick, I am from the Philippines it is very sad to think my people forgot that they got rid of Martial Law and what the call a dictator only to go back to this. I wish and pray it works for their benefit and future.
As I said Theresa the vast majority of your countrymen voted for him in free elections knowing full well what his policies were and his history as mayor. People must have seen no alternative in the other candidates when it came to tackling crime.
Hitler, Mugabe, Al bashir, lukashenko and most importantly for this story, Ferdinand Marcos were all elected and look how their ruling turned out.
Ross. We got Enda. Nobody is claiming that a Free Democratic election is perfect but it is the Peoples choice. And in this case he was elected by a vast majority of the Filipino people. He made no attempt to hide his policies, his history as Mayor of Davao city was there for all to see and yet still they voted for him in their millions.
And we think we are hard done by with Enda in charge
Just a different type of dictator
What a nice fellow.
They should fear the IMF mafia more and the march of aggressive neo liberal capitalism which has been destroying them. Watch this documentary.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79bZ71fUZRU
oh a good crack down on drug dealers, rapist and murders sounds like a great idea. and for parents who let their kids walk the streets at night in such a dangerous place should not be allow look after kids.
Extra-judicial killings are not the way forward no matter what. And I have always been perfectly safe in the Philippines.
It’s an interesting case study all the same.
I was in Davao last year and the people there love him. It was extremely safe by day and night although there is a very visible police force on the streets all fully armed. Smoking is banned literally everywhere and bars close at 1:30am. People in the city all seemed very happy and say it’s a god send from the days when Davao was the murder Capitol of the Phillipines. Whether such draconian ideology work across the nation remains to be seen but with so many phillipinos sick of crime and corruption you can see why they voted for him….
The majority of my friends here in Belfast are Filipino and I’m surprised by the support for him given the votes they cast in our recent election in the north. Why Miriam Defensor Santiago’s polling was so low is staggering – a highly intelligent, able, socially liberal academic and former International Criminal Court Judge. She may be mouthy but she was more than able. For Duterte to win, and for Marcos to poll astronomically higher than Miriam is completely and totally beyond me. It’s American-style cult of personality madness!
Or maybe the country want a serious change
Robbi, Mirriam was the only deserving candidate, if not for her being very sick ( granted she said her stage 4 cancer is in remission) people are in no doubt would have voted for her. Marcos is running for VP and Merriam is for President so their votes don’t connect.
This article perfectly encapsulates how bad the AFP is. Duterte is a plague and is a step backwards for The Philippines, it’s literally the easiest honest hit piece in the world to write but they just can’t help themselves. “He claimed Davao is one of the safest cities in the Philippines” well is it or isn’t it? How hard is it to quote the figures to us? Are they that afraid of admitting he may have been successful at one thing? God just report the facts and leave out the spin.
He must be Muslim…
He sounds absolutely crazy!!! I fear for the country!!!
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