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15/03/2019 Atheist Ireland

Catholic Bishops show their hypocrisy about freedom of conscience in two new abortion posts

The Catholic Bishops are complaining that applicants for two new medical posts at the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin will be required to carry out elective abortions if appointed. The Bishops say that this “totally undermines the whole concept of freedom of conscience which was guaranteed in the recent legislation”. ...

27/05/2018 Atheist Ireland

Abortion vote sees fall of Ireland’s Catholic Berlin Wall

This referendum sees the fall of the Catholic Berlin Wall that has kept a pluralist Irish people trapped within the laws of a Catholic Irish Constitution. Pregnant Irish women will now have the same right, to equality before the law, that gay couples have had since the marriage equality vote ...

13/05/2018 Ashling O'Brien

The Long Road to Repeal

A look at the Atheist Ireland campaign to repeal the 8th Amendment. *updated version of an article first published 18/03/2017 We are nearing the end of the very long road to repeal. These final few weeks of campaigning are the accumulation of years of hard work and the dedication of ...

21/12/2017 Atheist Ireland

Why Atheist Ireland supports repeal, not replacement, of the eighth amendment

Atheist Ireland welcomes the Oireachtas Committee recommendation to have a referendum to repeal, not replace, the constitutional ban on abortion. It is important that the Government allows us to vote on this question as soon as is practicable. Our policy is that society should address ethical issues based on human ...

27/04/2017 Atheist Ireland

Irish nun excommunicated for sanctioning an abortion

An Irish nun was excommunicated after she sanctioned an abortion to save a woman's life in a Catholic hospital in Arizona in 2009. She was later allowed to return to the Church if she went to confession and resigned her position in the hospital. The local Bishop also said that ...

20/04/2017 Atheist Ireland

The new National Maternity Hospital board and the Vatican Charter for Healthcare Workers

Much of the commentary about the new National Maternity Hospital has focussed on money. It is of course outrageous that the State would gift a brand new hospital, worth hundred of millions of euro, to a religious order which still owes millions of euro to the redress scheme for those it abused. ...

18/03/2017 Ashling O'Brien

Atheist Ireland continues to campaign for women’s reproductive rights.

Atheist Ireland continues to campaign for women’s reproductive rights and calls for a referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment. On Sunday 5th March Atheist Ireland presented to the Citizens’ Assembly as part of their discussion on the 8th Amendment. We were grouped with the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference and the General ...