The Institute’s Director Ciarán Kelly says the Government’s cost analysis of Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill may push vulnerable patients to believe they would be better off dead than using up ...

MSPs are set to debate and vote on Liam McArthur’s dangerous a Bill on 13 May. If you live in Scotland, please contact your ...

Sunday trading is to be extended in Belfast as part of a trial that has “concerned and saddened” residents. The City Council will run a six-week pilot scheme where large shops will be able to open ...

MPs are expected to have a conscience vote on decriminalising abortion in the coming months. Labour MPs Tonia Antoniazzi and ...

No-fault divorce has intensified conflict between spouses, rather than reducing it, a family lawyer has reported.

Funding the deaths of thousands by assisted suicide could save the NHS millions of pounds, an impact assessment has predicted ...

Plans to introduce a home education register are “intrusive”, “bureaucratic” and should be dropped, Peers have told the ...

Software that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate sexualised images of children should be immediately banned, the Children’s Commissioner has said. Dame Rachel de Souza warned that widely ...

Ireland’s Gender Recognition Act 2015 (GRA) compromises the safety and dignity of women and should be revoked, the Seanad Éireann has been told. Aontú Senator Sarah O’Reilly urged the Government to ...

Life is sacred from conception (see Sanctity of Life). Experiments on human embryos therefore involve the destruction of human beings. The deliberate taking of an innocent human life breaks the sixth ...