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				<title>24 May 13 Micheal Martin gives backing to abortion Bill  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin has claimed that the Government's proposed abortion legislation is "consistent with a pro-life position" and believes that his party should support it. However he admitted that there were many within his party who disagreed, and did not clearly rule out a free vote on the issue.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:26:56 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>24 May 13 Creches under investigation by Gardai and HSE </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Allegations of poor quality care and mistreatment of children made against two creches in Co. Dublin are being investigated by the Gardai and the HSE. A further creche is the subject solely of a HSE investigation.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:07:01 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>23 May 13 Labour TD admits abortion is not a cure for suicidal intent</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A Labour TD has admitted that abortion is not a treatment for suicidal ideation or suicidal intent. Speaking on Tuesday during the Health Committee's hearings on the Bill, Ciara Conway, the Deputy Chair of the committee said that everyone was agreed that abortion was not a treatment for suicide.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:10:08 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Senator Crown accused of “sectarian” attack on pro-life politicians</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A former Government advisor has slammed Senator John Crown for an “illiberal and sectarian” article in last weekend's Sunday Independent. Writing in the Irish Catholic, Gerry Howlin accused Senator Crown, who suggested that those who opposed to the Government's abortion legislation should be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution, of displaying “astonishing ignorance”.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:59:45 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>22 May 2013 Abortion Bill incompatible with human rights says Professor Binchy  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Government's proposed abortion legislation is “incompatible with the core values of human rights” because it allows the deliberate and intentional destruction of innocent human life, Professor William Binchy has said. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:46:22 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>21 May 13 Catholic politicians, abortion and the (apparent) JFK defence  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Some of our Catholic politicians who are preparing to vote in favour of abortion are trying to square their consciences by pulling what amounts to the ‘John F Kennedy defence’. That is, they are trying to separate their consciences from the faith because they think this is what Kennedy did, even though it’s not, in fact, what he did.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:56:12 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>21 May 13 Abortion Bill risks ‘normalising’ suicide warns leading psychiatrist </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Government's proposed abortion Bill risks normalising suicide among young men, a leading mental health professional has warned. The inclusion of a suicide clause in the legislation could cost more lives than it saved by “normalising” it, Prof Kevin Malone said at the second day of the Oireachtas health committee’s hearing on the proposed abortion Bill. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:56:08 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>21 May 13 Bid to protect right of religious schools not to teach about same-sex marriage rejected </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A bid to protect the right of religious schools not to teach that same-sex marriage and opposite marriage are equivalent has been rejected by the House of Commons. The bid was one of a number voted on yesterday during a debate on the British government’s same-sex marriage bill.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:51:56 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>20 May 13 European court pursues a ‘stealth’ mission regarding abortion and euthanasia  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Tuesday's ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of Gross v Switzerland was both astonishing and disturbing. The court found that Switzerland's law, which allows doctors to prescribe drugs to allow patients to kill themselves didn't provide sufficient “clarity” and as such breached the plaintiff's right to respect for private life.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:21:17 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>20 May 13 US pro-marriage organisation to sue IRS after being targeted   </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The leading organisation fighting the redefinition of marriage in the US is set to sue the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), accusing it of leaking its tax details to a political rival. The move comes amid controversy after it emerged that the IRS, which is the US Government's tax gathering arm, was targeting conservative groups who advocate for more limited government.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:13:13 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>18 May 13 Christianity in Britain declined faster than expected, new figures suggest </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Christianity in Britain could be facing a collapse with new figures suggesting it is declining 50 per cent faster than previously thought, The Daily Telegraph reports. An analysis of the 2011 census shows that a decade of mass immigration helped mask the scale of decline in Christian affiliation among the British-born population – while driving a dramatic increase in Islam, particularly among the young.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:11:05 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>17 May 13 No evidence that abortion will help suicidal women says leading doctor </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ One of the country’s leading obstetricians has said he has seen no evidence that abortion can help a suicidal pregnant woman and that creates a moral dilemma for doctors. Speaking on Newstalk this morning, the Master of the Rotunda, Dr Sam Coulter Smith, said: "We as doctors are required to practice evidence based intervention, evidence based medicine.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:15:02 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>17 May 13 Concern expressed at new embryo stem cell technique </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Scientists and bioethicists have expressed serious concerns about the ethical implications of a new technique that uses and destroys cloned embryos to harvest stem cells for experimentation. Professor Martin Clynes, director of the National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology at Dublin City University, said that the new technique, which involves the transfer of a donor cell to an egg cell whose nucleus has been removed, creating a human embryo, has“probably” not gotten over the ethical issues involved with so-called therapeutic cloning, the Irish Times reports.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:43:34 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>17 May 13 Should marriage in any form have special status?</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The family diversity or family equality argument is perfectly expressed today in The Irish Times by Karen Kiernan of One Family. The essence of her argument; the family in Ireland is changing, all families are equal in esteem and marriage shouldn’t be held in higher esteem. Therefore change the Constitution and remove the special status of marriage. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:35:45 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>16 May 13 Archbishop Martin intervenes in debate over abortion legislation  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, has warned that the Government's abortion legislation will give the unborn child whose mother was deemed to be suicidal “less protection than is guaranteed in liberal abortion laws in other countries”.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:02:49 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>16 May 13 European Court attacked over new assisted suicide ruling </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that guidelines in place in Switzerland which restrict access to 'suicide' drugs are insufficiently clear and are in breach of Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. However, the court did not rule that there is a right to assisted suicide in the Convention.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:05:04 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>15 May 13 New French coalition formed to fight for freedom of conscience  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A coalition of groups opposed to the legalisation of same-sex marriage in France have come together to stand up for the freedom of conscience of religious individuals and institutions who could find themselves the target of ‘anti-discrimination’ legislation.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:23:05 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>14 May 13 Abortionist found guilty of murder of infants  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Philadelphia abortionist, Dr Kermit Gosnell, has been found guilty of three counts of first degree murder after it was found he killed babies after they had been delivered alive. He was also found guilty of conspiracy to perform abortions past Pennsylvania's 24-week legal threshold.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:03:42 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>14 May 13 Young families hardest hit by recession says ESRI  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Young families have been the hardest hit by the recession, according to new research from a leading think-tank. The study by the the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) shows that households where the adults are under the age of 45 are being hit hardest by unemployment, mortgage arrears and negative equity. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:54:21 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>13 May 2013 'I want gay marriage but I also think marriage shouldn't exist at all'</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Those who favour allowing same-sex couples to marry argue, in public at least, that they seek only to extend marriage, and it is not their intention to destroy it.
Some same-sex marriage advocates publicly disagree. One of them is Russian-American lesbian activist and author Masha Gessen.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 12:53:26 +0100</pubDate>
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