Students For Life Ireland, a pro-life student group, have called on the Health Minister, Simon Harris, to prioritise the ever growing health crisis over legislation creating 'safe access zones' around hospitals.

Did you ever see a baby more beautiful than Victoria Setuke, or a mother prouder and happier than Victoria’s mother Patience?

As someone who has carried a tiny white coffin out of Holles Street, I can attest to the anguish caused by the wilful insensitivity of the protestors who assembled there on New Years Day.

Health Minister Simon Harris has launched a blistering attack on anti-abortion protesters outside the National Maternity Hospital, saying their actions were “intimidating, sickening and anti-democratic.”

How disappointing it is that the first anniversary of the liberalisation of reproductive rights in Ireland was marked by a ghoulish anti-abortion protest outside the National Maternity Hospital (NMH).

Health Minister Simon Harris has launched a blistering attack on anti-abortion protesters outside the National Maternity Hospital on Wednesday, saying their actions were “intimidating, sickening and anti-democratic.”

Dr Aoife Mullally has been appointed the clinical lead on termination services for the HSE.

The Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) has warned that more needs to be done to enhance abortion services to people all over Ireland.

Almost a year since abortion services were legalised in Ireland just over 300 GPs have agreed to carry out the procedure, according to new figures.

A Fianna Fáil councillor has expressed shock at being the subject of a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission over an alleged incident with an anti-abortion campaigner at a pipe band contest in Dublin last year.

A woman from Northern Ireland who was prosecuted for buying abortion pills online for her teenage daughter has been formally acquitted after landmark reform of the region's laws.

Campaigners in Dublin say they are “overwhelmed” and “emotional” as abortion is set to be decriminalised in Northern Ireland.

Abortion reforms in Northern Ireland risk being slowly unpicked by UK ministers, the House of Commons has heard.

Amy Dunne, known then only as Miss D, also said that social workers advised her to stay in a psychiatric hospital when she turned to them for help.

The woman at the centre of the controversial Miss D case in 2007 has revealed that she was told by social workers at the time that getting an abortion was murder and that she was advised to stay in a mental hospital.

When abortion services became legal on January 1, the HSE set up a support service called My Options.

Northern Ireland's strict abortion law breaches the UK's human rights commitments, the High Court in Belfast has ruled.

The group says that it will base itself across the road from the hospital from 7am to 7pm from September 25 to November 6.

The National Women’s Council of Ireland is calling for the urgent introduction of safety zone legislation ahead of a planned 40-day prayer vigil outside the National Maternity Hospital by campaigners opposed to abortion.

Doctors have welcomed new Medical Council ethical guidelines which outline the extent of conscientious objection to abortion.

More than 3,800 contacts were made to crisis-pregnancy counselling services in Ireland last year, including 36 children under the age of 17 who sought help from two organisations.

A US federal judge has blocked three new abortion restrictions from taking effect in Arkansas, including a measure that opponents say would likely force the state's only surgical abortion clinic to close.

Demand for post-termination counselling more than doubled last year, the Sexual Health Centre in Cork has reported.

The Minister for Health is promising exclusion zones outside hospitals will be a "major priority" when the Dáil returns from its break in September.

It was 1984. The country had just voted two-to-one to pass the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution to prohibit legal abortion, except when a woman’s life was in danger.

The Health Minister has asked his department to engage with the HSE to establish how four consultant obstetricians at a Kilkenny hospital have “decided unanimously” that their unit is not a suitable location for abortion services.

Four consultant obstetricians at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, among them an anti-abortion campaigner, have written to GPs in the region to advise that termination services are not available in the hospital.

Fewer women gave Irish addresses at abortion clinics in Britain last year, but there was a 15% increase in the number buying abortion pills online.

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is being accused of attempting to sweep an alleged "illegal abortion" under the carpet.

A couple whose baby was aborted at the National Maternity Hospital after it was wrongly diagnosed as having a fatal foetal abnormality have claimed that an "illegal abortion" was carried out, a TD has told the Dáil.

They didn’t vote for the trebling of abortions, for the refusal of pain relief for babies, nor for the proviso that doctors who refuse to comply must refer the mother on to one who will, writes Cora Sherlock.

A couple who terminated their pregnancy after a series of tests wrongly suggested the presence of a fatal foetal abnormality have called on the Minister for Health to intervene and establish an independent inquiry into their case.

The hard-fought campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment began as soon as it was inserted into the Constitution 35 years ago. Last year the nation collectively stood up for the women of Ireland, writes Ailbhe Smyth, former co-director of Together for Yes.

Repealing the Eighth Amendment removed the ban on women accessing abortion in Ireland. But, one year on, issues such as the three-day waiting period mean that some women still cannot fully access the care they need, writes Joyce Fegan.

Five Southern US states have signed so-called heartbeat bills prohibiting abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected.

Pro-choice activists have projected an image of a giant heart onto Northern Ireland Office (NIO) premises in London.

Campaigners are warning of pro-life attacks outside hospitals if laws on exclusion zones are not immediately introduced.

Meanwhile, the Pro-Life Campaign have urged voters to support pro-life candidates in tomorrow's elections.

An independent review into the circumstances of an abortion at the National Maternity Hospital is to be carried out, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed to the Dáil.

A couple who terminated their pregnancy after a test suggested the presence of a fatal foetal abnormality want an inquest to take place.

Safe zones for people accessing abortion services at GP offices or hospitals are expected to be agreed by the Government next month.

The solicitor representing the couple that had a pregnancy terminated at the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) after tests showed their baby had a fatal fetal abnormality said they must be “at the heart” of any investigation into the tragedy.