The View The Supreme Court of the United States looks set to overturn the ruling in Roe v Wade which legalised abortion on demand across the country. Although this will likely mean that some states will keep abortion legal while others will ban or restrict it, the decision has enormous symbolic significance in the US…
The View Here is a peculiar thing that is becoming more and more apparent in what passes for public discourse these days – Irish feminists don’t seem to like strong, opinionated women. That might seem counter-intuitive: after all, the whole point of feminism, one imagines, is to encourage women to be whatever they want to be. We certainly hear lots…
The View It increasingly seems that the stories that should most inspire us, the lives that are illuminated with courage and love, are becoming the least often heard. Sometimes, that’s a deliberate ploy, especially when the profound courage of families who carry and love their baby with a life-limiting condition are ignored by the media. But in the past few months,…
The View Politics, so I’m frequently told, is a rough game, where players have to contend with machiavellian schemes, dirty tricks and all sorts of back-stabbing and unexpected heaves. The usual addendum to that descriptor is “and that’s only within your own party”. It’s long been held, therefore, that increasing the visibility and participation of women in…
The View Daniel and Amy McArthur are a young couple who run a bakery in Belfast. The couple are Christians and they make clear, on the bakery’s website, that their faith is part of the business mission, stating: “Our name comes from the Bible. Asher was a tribe of Israel who had many skilled bakers and created bread…
My father always had a merry soul. He still does. And he also had a remarkably prodigious memory. There wasn’t a traditional or seannós song he didn’t know. It was as if on the first hearing of a song he soaked up and absorbed not just every line, but every nuance, ornamentation, and flourish, of…
The View Last year, then Minister for Health, Simon Harris – a man with a commitment to making abortion easily available – said that the abortion pill could be prescribed remotely during the Covid-19 crisis. Previously, the HSE had said that pregnant women needed to attend a pre-abortion consultation in a surgery or clinic. When this…
The View Next week, a compelling new documentary Ireland’s Fall: The Abortion Deception will tell the inside story behind the repeal of the Eighth Amendment. That account will differ, of course, from the narrative that has been so widely spun by abortion campaigners and their media allies who would have you believe that Ireland’s abortion law…
The View So first, the good news: the bill seeking to legalise assisted suicide in Ireland has been comprehensively rejected by the Oireachtas Justice Committee. This is a significant victory for the protection of vulnerable, sick and elderly people – who are among those endangered when it becomes culturally and medically acceptable to assist a…