A SURVEY for a pro-life group has said two out of three Irish people believe the Constitution should protect human embryos and prevent abortions unless medically necessary.

PRO-life campaigners yesterday said a new opinion poll showed strong public support for a continued ban on abortion.

SENSITIVE legislation must be produced to protect the life of the “embryonic human being”, the Pro-Life campaign insisted.

The Irish Family Planning Association was accused of “scaremongering” today for supporting a legal challenge by three women opposing Ireland’s abortion laws.

ALMOST two-thirds of people would support a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion but allowing medical intervention to save a mother’s life, a poll reveals.

ALMOST two-thirds of people would support a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion but allowing medical intervention to save a mother’s life, a poll reveals.

PRO-LIFE group Youth Defence has claimed Miss D is being used by the pro-abortion lobby to further their agenda.

The Pro Life Campaign said today they were disappointed with an High Court ruling which found frozen embryos have no right to life.

THE latest Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA) telephone survey on abortion claims that 64% of the public regard it as acceptable in some circumstances.

MAKING it a criminal offence to pay for sex in Ireland is the only way to stop the growing number of younger men using prostitutes, Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) insisted yesterday.

Abortion statistics from an in-depth survey on sexual health are inaccurate due to the way the questions were framed, the Pro-Life Campaign claimed today.

A LEADING anti-abortion group has called on the Government to provide greater legal protection for human embryos in the face of growing pressure for their use in stem cell research.

A CLINICAL guide to abortion care has been published for the first time in Ireland by a group of pro-choice doctors.

THE militant anti-abortion group, Youth Defence, disrupted a public meeting of campaigners looking for the removal of the Constitutional ban on abortion in Dublin yesterday.