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Welcome to the new look website for the European Life network.
 
Forthcoming Conference

 

Where is the Catholic Family Going in New Millennium Ireland?
 
The Relevance of Familiaris Consortio – encyclical by
Pope John Paul II
 
Green Isle Hotel, Dublin  Sunday 11 March 2012
 
8.45 Registration
9:15am Introductory Comments  Familiaris Consortio
9:30am 10-00am Dr Robert Walley,  Matercare Global Maternal Health Issues
10.05am –10:30am – Kathy Sinnott, Former M.E.P. : The Threat of the Children’s Rights  Referendum
10:30am 11am – Eanna Johnson Catholic Cathechesis
11.00-11:15am Coffee
11: 15  - 11:45 am Professor Ray Kinsella: The E.U., the Family and Economics.
11:50 – 12:30pm    Patrick Fagan: Marriage, Family and Religion.
12:30pm- 1pm  Speakers Panel Questions and Answers.
 
1pm- 2pm Lunch
 
2pm – 2:30pm Dr Phil Boyle  Fertility Care.
2:35pm – 3:05pm Antonia Tully S.P.U.C. UK: What’s happening with sex education in schools?
3:10pm – 3:40pm Dr Tom Ward : The assault on Parental Rights
3:40pm – 4pm Coffee
4pm -4:45pm Speakers Panel : Questions and Answers
 
€25 admission. Concessions. Space limited
 
Co-sponsored by National Association of Catholic Families (NACF), European Life Network (ELN)   087 2578250, www.europeanlifenetwork.org and Human Life International (Ireland) HLII www.humanlife.ie
Tel 094 93 75993
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Stop lecturing us on our own constitution
On 13 April, I reported on the cancellation of the lecture on euthanasia, which was to have been delivered at Cork University Hospital (Ireland). The well known speaker, Professor Len Doyal, whose lecture promoting euthanasia was sponsored, chiefly, by the Health Service Executive (HSE) for the Cork region, was not to be stopped, however, in his euthanasia-promotion agenda – he subsequently succeeded in having a lengthy article on the subject published in the Irish Times.
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People as Pestilence
A group calling itself ‘Sustainable Population Australia (SPA)’ has declared that Australia’s 22 million people must be reduced to 7 million in order to avoid ‘environmental suicide’. The way in which this population control pressure group would plan to reduce the Australian population is to restrict every couple to one baby – on the lines of the infamous One Child policy enforced in China.
The group’s national president has also called for the abolition of the government baby bonus paid for all children in a family after the first child.
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Dublin Conference on Stem Cell Research
A three-day international symposium on the theme of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells took place in Dublin on 22, 23 and 24 April. Initial short presentations on ‘Creating the appropriate environment for stem cell innovation in Ireland’, ‘Increasing Ireland’s competitiveness in the stem cell research sector : funding and policy’, and ‘Facilitating basic and applied stem cell research in Ireland through scientifically informed governmental policy’ were made. However, an alarming proportion of the twenty-five papers presented over the three days specifically concerned the involvement of human embryonic stem cells. 
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“The child by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth”

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child