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Abortion / Health, Family

She was given a 1% chance of survival – and look at her now!

As you know, there’s a huge push right now, both North and South, to legalise abortion for babies with a disability. That’s why we need to stand strong against abortion at the All Ireland Rally for Life in Belfast on July 2nd.   

Family

Creating a Self Care Station for your Toddler

If you’ve had a toddler, or even spent more than an hour or two with one, it is something you know firsthand. In addition to all the happy things that accompany the exploration and curiosity that define toddler-hood comes something pretty darned developmentally important.

Abortion / Disability, Family

Outgoing Master of Rotunda calls for better perinatal hospice type care

Every Life Counts has welcomed a call for increased support for families who face a life-limiting diagnosis for their unborn baby. 

Family

Is It Hard To Sleep In Seattle?

I can remember as a kid my mom saying to me, ‘You are such a brilliant kid…but if you don’t get enough sleep God help the person who may cross your path that day’.

Family

5 Things That Caught My Eye…

When traveling out-of-state to do some speaking and book signing, I happened to be behind this gentleman at the airport. His shirt caught my eye. It was such a nice sight!

Abortion / Disability, Family, Media Bias

RTE and Simon Mills cause huge distress to parents of bereaved children. Please support them.

Last week you spoke up for the families of unborn children with profound disability, and prompted a right to reply from Newstalk. Now we're asking you to do the same for bereaved parents whose children lost their lives to a profound disability, and who have been deeply distressed by the callous and erroneous claims made on RTE's Morning Ireland last Friday, 10th October 2014.. 

Abortion: UK, Family

UK bishop ties England's riots to 5 million abortions over last 40 years

For 41 years, Britain has lived with "a state-sponsored culture of death that has killed 5 million children" said Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue, emeritus bishop of Lancaster, in a homily at a pilgrimage for the unborn in Norfolk last week. "We're now surprised that some of the surviving children have turned out violent with no regard for the sanctity of life?" "Yes, abortion, contraception, euthanasia, and assisted suicide destroy life, and they also destroy the sanctity of home," Bishop O'Donoghue continued. "This is why there are so many broken homes in our country."

Family, Press Release

PR: Abolish Tax Individualisation

Abolish the system which penalises single income families

Family, Press Release, Life Institute

PR: Case should not be used as political football

The Mother and Child Campaign has expressed upset at what they describe as the use of Baby Anne as a 'political football in the establishment's propaganda war on the family'. They have reluctantly decided that they need to respond.

Family, Press Release, Life Institute

PR: Crisis in Pensions Looming

The Mother and Child Campaign said today that mandatory pensions and other stop-gap measures would not adequately meet the looming pensions crisis. The Campaign spokes woman Niamh Ui Bhriain said that Minister Seamus Brennan should take immediate steps to reverse anti-family measures such as tax-individualisation, which had contributed to the demographic shift at the core of what was now becoming a crisis regarding future pension payments.

Family, Press Release, Life Institute

PR: Don't undermine parental rights

The Mother and Child Campaign has warned the government against exploiting the plight of children at risk in Ireland to seriously undermine the constitutional and natural rights of Irish parents. Spokeswoman for the campaign, Maria McCluskey, said that the overwhelming majority of Irish parents were devoted to their children and that parents' rights, including the right to best decide as to how to care for their children, should not be under attack by the State.

Family, Press Release, Life Institute

PR: Family Campaign Launched

Did you know that the State punishes some families by taxing them up to an additional €5,460 every year? That’s a huge amount of money - enough to pay a mortgage for four or five months! And most of these are families with young children, struggling to make ends meet.