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** In This Week’s Issue:
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* Researchers call for taxpayer funding of test routinely used to target unborn babies with a disability ❌👶
* Minister for Health undertakes to look at practice of telemedicine abortion 🏛️
* Senator Sarah O’Reilly discusses Ireland’s soaring abortion rates at PLC Webinar
* DRIVE & DROP: Help a Mother in Need this Mother’s Day! 🚗
** Latest News
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** Researchers call for taxpayer funding of test routinely used to target unborn babies with a disability
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A group of researchers from University College Cork have called for a prenatal test to be funded by Irish taxpayers, to address what they describe as “inequitable access” to the screening at present.
The non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) that the group of academics are pushing to have rolled out for free across the country screens for chromosomal conditions such as trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome), trisomy 18 (Edwards Syndrome) and trisomy 13 (Patau Syndrome).
“Barriers to accessing NIPT testing include the cost of testing, location of providers, and a lack of appropriate information to allow pregnant people to make informed choices,” the authors of the research said.
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Minister for Health undertakes to look at practice of telemedicine abortion
Last week in the Seanad, in the presence of the Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (pictured above), Senator Rónán Mullen raised Ireland’s spiralling abortion rate and the dangers associated with Government sanctioned telemedicine ‘at home’ abortions.
Senator Mullen referenced the increased likelihood of coercive abortion as a result of telemedicine and the case involving a woman from Limerick who had an abortion via telemedicine and nearly died because of the existence of an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy.
Deputy Carroll MacNeill, who was only recently appointed as Minister for Health responded to Senator Mullen’s call for a review of telemedicine abortion by saying that she did not know enough about the practice but gave an undertaking, saying: “I will need to look at it.”
You can watch Senator Mullen’s one-minute contribution in the Seanad by clicking below
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** Senator Sarah O’ Reilly discusses need to address Ireland’s abortion rate at PLC Webinar
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Click below to watch newly elected Senator Sarah O'Reilly ([link removed][0]=AZWXYFTviGdrCeYyKGl41WkqOgMuZSHfI0o75Vbsih5VTdCNAee2Mg6b-qDwPaZK5h4zVipNRMBroptOpPGDf7gGV5vXMM-yqqLMfiVAYEI2zK7tEzG5-jPBqYwH8dkpnW4-tHGhB4OyDPe0mBSor8SAoQjYDKmJIr-hc4pW7Db5Lq02Ny1PoL1vu9e0gXIi9aM-D2PtPb6oUgGAFPc0EC5X&__tn__=-]K-R) of Aontú ([link removed][0]=AZWXYFTviGdrCeYyKGl41WkqOgMuZSHfI0o75Vbsih5VTdCNAee2Mg6b-qDwPaZK5h4zVipNRMBroptOpPGDf7gGV5vXMM-yqqLMfiVAYEI2zK7tEzG5-jPBqYwH8dkpnW4-tHGhB4OyDPe0mBSor8SAoQjYDKmJIr-hc4pW7Db5Lq02Ny1PoL1vu9e0gXIi9aM-D2PtPb6oUgGAFPc0EC5X&__tn__=-]K-R) discussing with Eilís Mulroy the need for urgent Government action to be taken to address Ireland's soaring abortion rate. Senator O'Reilly was interviewed as a guest on the PLC's Network Webinar which aired earlier this week.
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** Help a Mother in Need for Mother's Day!
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Our friends over at Community Connect - Ireland's National Baby Bank Charity - are holding their annual Drive & Drop National donation weekend on 22nd & 23rd March, and they need your support!
As well as providing donated pre-loved baby equipment like buggies, cots and baby clothes to mothers and babies in need, they also provide gift packages filled with necessities such as nappies, maternity items and hygiene items. Drive & Drop is of vital importance to them to stock up their hubs with all the basics to fill their BabyBoxes, MamaBags and Hospital Bags for expecting and new mums.
It couldn’t be easier to support Drive & Drop:
1. Check the list of items accepted
2. Pick up some items from the list in your weekly shop
3. Drop them to Community Connect's volunteers on Sat 22nd or Sun 23rd at a local dropoff location.
With 35 dropoff points nationwide, including Dublin, Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, Athlone, Carlow, Dundalk, Kerry, Wicklow & Wexford, there are lots to choose from! You can read more at the link below.
Community Connect’s volunteers will make up the BabyBoxes, MamaBags and Hospital Bags, and deliver them directly to the families who need!
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** SAVE THE DATE!!
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March for Life 2025 💙
Bank Holiday Monday, 5th May @2pm
If you don’t have the date in your diary already, PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF IT TODAY!
This year’s March for Life has an added importance as the new government begins to take hold. The significant increase in the number of pro-life TDs and Senators elected recently creates a big opportunity for the pro-life movement - one that we need to embrace wholeheartedly.
The hard work is paying off and starting to show results but we have to keep pushing forward.
Bank Holiday Monday (5th May) is our chance to unite with our pro-life Oireachtas members and send a very clear message to the Government that we expect to see urgent action taken to address Ireland’s skyrocketing abortion numbers. The appalling situation at present of women being kept in the dark about positive alternatives prior to an abortion, has to end.
It will only end however if enough pressure mounts. Change happens when people show up!
On Bank Holiday Monday (5th May), we are counting on you to make an extra special effort to be present.
We can’t wait to see you there!
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