This submission to Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee opposing the Westminster Parliament legislating on abortion for Northern Ireland was made on 8 December 2018 but was not published at that time due to the rules of the Committee. The Committee’s Report has now issued and is on Parliament’s website (www.parliament.uk). The Report contains within it […]
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Abortion in Northern Ireland
This Catholic Union submission was made in December and has just been published on the website of the Women and Equalities Committee. It can therefore now be made public. Abortion in NI Submission to WEC
Response to Richmond Council consultation on a PSPO (“buffer zone”) at Rosslyn Road.
On 8 December 2018, the Catholic Union submitted a response to Richmond Council’s consultation exercise on making a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) in relation to the abortion facility in Rosslyn Road. Richmond Council Response to Consultation re Abortion Clinic
Ealing Council Consultation Response
The Catholic Union has responded to Ealing Council’s Consultation opposing its proposed Public Spaces Protection Order as unnecessary and unlawful. Ealing Council Response to Consultation re Abortion Clinic
Home Office and Lambeth Council Abortion Clinics Review
The Catholic Union has responded to the Home Office Abortion Clinics Protest Review and to Lambeth Council’s consultation on the making of a Public Spaces Protection Order. You can read the submissions, by clicking on the document titles below. Home Office Abortion Clinics Review Lambeth PSPO Consultation
Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee
The Catholic Union has made a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee opposing the inclusion of a right to abortion in the Committee’s draft General Comment on the right to life (Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights). ICCPR Article 6 submission
Chairman’s New Year Message 2015
2014 has been another year of significant note for Catholics. In March the legislation Marriage – Same Sex Couples – Act which was passed by Parliament in July 2013 came into force allowing anyone who is registered in a civil partnership to have the ability to convert this partnership into a marriage. As of December […]
Alert on Abortion from Lord Alton
Abortion news in the Daily Mail 2nd June 2014 Lord Alton Vice-President of the Catholic Union has requested that the article published in the Daily Mail by Dominic Lawson be drawn to the attention of members and others. See link below: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2645632/Why-daughters-birthday-shames-think-people-Downs-not-fit-live.html In addition, the Daily Mail carries an article describing how the abortion laws […]
Summary notes of the meeting of the Parliamentary & Public Affairs Committee 13th May 2014
Correspondence The Chairman had prepared a short summary of points from the last meeting for Archbishop Peter Smith, copied to his own Archbishop Bernard Longley, and also to the Cardinal via his sectary. There had been no acknowledgement, but he hoped to meet with Archbishop Longley and with the Cardinal’s secretary and find out if […]
Summary proceedings of the Parliamentary & Public Affairs Committee 8th April 2014
Chairman’s Announcements The chairman welcomed a new member of the committee, Patricia Stoat as per last month’s announcement. Correspondence The chairman referred to a letter to the Daily Telegraph from Jim Dobbin, Sir Edward Leigh and others on the benefits of marriage to society. He noted the government was, belatedly, introducing a modest transferable tax […]
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