A charity that threw a ‘bowl-a-thon’ to help low-income women afford abortions paid for a 14-year-old schoolgirl to terminate her baby. The girl, known only as Darcy, said she was unable to ask her mother for money because the treatment she needed would have cost more than the family’s rent. So she turned to the National Network of Abortion Funds, which raised more than $400,000 after organising bowling events at alleys across the country to raise cash for ‘low-income and disadvantaged women who want an abortion and do not have enough money to pay for it’…

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A Fine Gael TD has argued that most unwanted pregnancies are a result of fornication. Michelle Mulherin, from Mayo, rejected calls for the Government to pass a Bill allowing abortion in cases where a woman’s life is in danger. “I’m against abortion in any form. The grace of God is so liberating and provides so many options to get the best out of life,” said Ms Mulherin…

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The Department of Health has chided the health regulator for claiming it had to divert resources away from monitoring patient care in the NHSbecause of a pressing need to investigate more than 300 abortion clinics in England. In a letter to Dame Jo Williams, chair of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the department says it was the regulator’s “responsibility to ensure that this headroom exists” and it must be capable of “both scheduled inspections and of responding quickly to any new evidence of illegality or unsafe practice as soon as you learn of it”…

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The care watchdog has come under attack after claiming its new duty to investigate abortion clinics is compromising its ability to inspect hospitals and nursing homes. Ministers told the Care Quality Commission to undertake urgent spot checks of abortion clinics after it emerged doctors were illegally agreeing to carry out terminations because foetuses were the ‘wrong’ sex. But the CQC claims the investigations are diverting its attention from crucial inspections of care homes and hospitals needed to ensure patients are not being put at risk…

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New doctors will be put off from providing abortion services after recent pro-life protests at clinics around the UK, medical providers have warned. Activists from groups such as ’40 Days for Life’ have been holding daily prayer vigils outside clinics run by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in London. Although the group claim their protests are peaceful some have accused them of intimidation. Last month one woman complained she was filmed leaving a BPAS clinic…

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The largest ever meta-analysis of the effects of abortion on mental health has shown that there is a higher risk of developing mental health problems among women who have had an abortion than among those who decide instead to give birth. The analysis was carried out by Professor Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green University, Ohio, who presented her findings in Parliament yesterday (6 March) at the ‘Colloquium on the Psychological Effects of Abortion’…

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Doctors should have the right to kill newborn babies because they are disabled, too expensive or simply unwanted by their mothers, an academic with links to Oxford University has claimed. Francesca Minerva, a philosopher and medical ethicist, argues a young baby is not a real person and so killing it in the first days after birth is little different to aborting it in the womb. Even a healthy baby could have its life snuffed out if the mother decides she can’t afford to look after it, the article published by the British Medical Journal group states…

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