Latest: Anti-abortion campaigners have defended their proposed use of graphic images in protests scheduled for Dublin and Cork airports.

The "slaughter of the innocents" needs to be stopped, according to a group who are picketing Anti-Austerity Alliance TD Mick Barry's Cork office this morning due to his pro-choice stance.

Free speech rights should allow an anti-abortion group to release secretly recorded videos of discussions with a California company that provides foetal tissue for research, a US judge said.