A CBR staff member not involved in CBR’s long term Irish education project and not authorized to comment on its several purposes, has incorrectly described it as opposition to the legalization of abortion. This is inaccurate, and now that the misstatement has been called to our attention, a correction has been posted on CBR’s website at abortionNO.org. Read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/world/europe/ireland-us-abortion-referendum.html
Legal Does Not Mean Right This poem highlights the short-sightedness of a society which blindly professes that if something is legal, it must be “right.”
On February 4, 2018 the Irish Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (ICBR) was informed by An Garda Siochana that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has declined to charge or prosecute the public display of abortion photo signs. The decision followed the submission of legal memoranda arguing that these public displays violated neither the Public Order Act or any other prohibition imposed by law. ICBR is gratified to learn that our position has been definitively vindicated and expressive rights will remain fully protected by the Irish Constitution. Sgt. Gary Gordon, Kilkenny, Ireland police, threatens ICBR director Dr. Jean Englea…
Expressive rights are more secure in the UK today as a consequence of anti-abortion campaigners having forced Sussex Police to admit that they were wrong to have arrested them for displaying shocking abortion photos in the public square. Andrew Stephenson and Kathryn Attwood, founding members of the campaign group called The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform–UK (CBR-UK), prevailed in civil claims which they filed at the Royal Courts of Justice against Sussex Police for unlawfully arresting them on multiple occasions in 2010 and 2011. A district judge later acquitted both Mr. Stephenson and Mrs. Attwood of all charges. Credit for that…
