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Savita Halapannavar consultant tells inquest she refused termination over...
Dr Katherine Astbury, who treated Savita Halappanavar refused her request for a termination because of “the legal position in Ireland”. She says she postponed termination until there was a ‘real and...
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Examiner editorial: Embryo sale controls
The “commodification” of children in an emerging made-to-order commercial embryo industry marks a disturbing twist in the heated debate surrounding the use of embryos in the making of babies....
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Times editorial: the legal and ethical vacuum into which Savita’s doctors fell
Would such a consideration have been sufficient on the Monday or Tuesday of Savita’s last week to free doctors’ hands to give her a termination? Perhaps. Perhaps not. We do not know if they seriously...
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Arcane principle behind traditional teaching on gynaecology and ethics is bad...
James Mackey reminded readers recently, on these pages, of a distinction taught to generations of clerical and medical students in Ireland, between causing the death of a foetus “directly and...
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Doctors should make any pro-life views clear, says ethics expert
Women will have to ask their doctor’s views on abortion if changes to the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill demanded by medical ethicist Dr Donal O’Mathuna are made. Dr O’Mathuna said the...
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Priest on Mater board says hospital cannot carry out abortions
The Mater hospital in Dublin “cannot comply” with the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act and cannot carry out abortions, a member of its board of governors has said. Fr Kevin Doran was speaking to...
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Irish Examiner editorial: Hospital abortion row – 210 million reasons to...
Surely no hospital worthy of the name could, on the basis of religious ethos, ever justify turning its back on a pregnant woman with medical complications that could put her life at risk. (Examiner)...
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Emer O’Kelly: Hospitals’ Catholic ethos means pregnant women are still at risk
THE provision in the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill that no institution would be permitted to opt out of providing medical termination of a pregnancy in the case of grave danger to the life...
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Hospital board member resigns
In August, Fr Kevin Doran said the voluntary hospital would not comply with the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act. Despite being named as one of the 25 “appropriate institutions” where the...
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Judge rules doctors were legally entitled to take blood
Doctors are legally entitled to take blood samples from a teenage psychiatric patient against her will in the circumstances where she has threatened to take her own life, the High Court has ruled....
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