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Gardaí have renewed their appeal for the mother of a newborn baby found dead on a beach to seek help.

Victoria White takes issue with an RTÉ News report on the referendum result, specifically with the assertion that the Eighth Amendment was “the brainchild of Catholic lay activists”.

Love Both has set out a list of principles which should be included in abortion legislation including a ban on the sale of foetal remains.

The association representing the bulk of the country’s GPs is holding an extraordinary general meeting tomorrow against a backdrop of no engagement with the Department of Health on how it plans to roll out a doctor-led abortion service.

Fear of prosecution held back Savita Halappanavar’s clinical team from terminating her pregnancy sooner, the medical expert who headed the inquiry into her death has said.

The author of the investigation into Savita Halappanavar’s death has reiterated his finding that she would still be alive if the Eighth Amendment did not exist.

A bill to prevent schools from using their religious ethos to avoid providing objective and factual sex education is to be debated in the Dáil.

The Irish Family Planning Association says there is no medical justification for female genital mutilation.

A medical expert says there is a 'compelling rationale' behind introducing free contraceptives here.

There are still a number of rogue crisis pregnancy agencies in operation despite a HSE crackdown, it has been claimed.

The debate on the Eighth Amendment has prompted a surge in the number of people accessing post-abortion counselling.

The HSE is involved in a “constant battle” against rogue crisis pregnancy agencies, the Oireachtas committee examining the Eighth Amendment has heard.

Cheap long-term contraception will cut crisis pregnancy numbers

Countries will face economic and social unrest unless inequality towards the world’s poorest women is tackled urgently.

Almost 40% of Irish couples use no contraception while a third rely on the ‘withdrawal’ method, or have in the past.

Almost one in four Irish women have experienced an unplanned or crisis pregnancy, according to new research.

Those who advocate for the retention of the Eighth Amendment assert that it has deterred women from accessing abortion ‘Irish law keeps rate of abortion low’ (Irish Examiner, Letters, July 14).

The European premiere of Someone You Love: The HPV Epidemic, was screened in Dublin last night.

Two minutes of slight discomfort saved the life of Esther Hope when a routine smear test for cervical cancer came back with an abnormal result.

The offer of compensation to a woman who successfully complained to the United Nations about Ireland’s abortion laws, is a recognition by the State that she was subjected to “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment because she was forced to travel to seek an abortion, the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) has said.

A Dublin doctor has spoken of the trauma of returning from England with the foetal remains of her baby after being forced to travel to Liverpool to terminate her pregnancy.

Áilín Quinlan reports on two new DCU courses — on sexuality and sexual health, and on relationships and sexuality for people with intellectual disability

The number of medical card holders taking oral contraceptives has more than doubled since 2009, according to the HSE.

The number of Irish women travelling to Britain for an abortion has almost halved in the past 14 years.

Irish law criminalises women and girls for having abortions and could see them get 14 years in jail. Niall Behan says it it time to change it to put women’s health first

The Irish Family Planning Association has described as bizarre the exclusion of abortion reform from government formation talks despite a majority of TDs now being in favour of re-examining the law.

More than 1,000 abortion pills were seized by Irish health authorities last year — twice the number confiscated in each of the previous two years.

EU study concludes that main risk would involve girls returning to their country of origin

Abortion activists held a demonstration in Dublin against the prosecution of a woman in Northern Ireland for procuring her daughter with abortion pills.

10 years ago, examples of female genital mutilation in Ireland were rare. Not so anymore, writes Caroline O’Doherty

The Irish Family Planning Association is calling on the government to implement a national sexual health programme.

There has been a surge in online testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), with nearly 1,000 people turning to the internet for diagnosis last year.

1m women screened at least once since programme’s 2008 start

The number of women over the age of 44 seeking pregnancy counselling more than doubled in the past two years, a leading sexual health clinic has reported.

The Irish Family Planning Association says some women continue with a pregnancy against their wishes, because of the challenges in trying to travel out of the state for an abortion.