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Irish Times
a day ago
- Health
- Irish Times
Abortion numbers rose to 10,852 in State in 2024
The number of women who had abortions in Ireland last year rose to 10,852. The figure, which was released by the Department of Health , represents the highest number of terminations carried out since the law was changed following the 2018 referendum. The majority (10,711) were early pregnancy terminations, where a woman takes two types of medicines prescribed by a GP up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. A total of 108 terminations were due to a diagnosed fatal foetal abnormality where there was a condition likely to lead to death of the foetus. A further 24 pregnancies were terminated due to risk to the life or health of the mother, while nine terminations involved an emergency intervention. READ MORE The highest number of terminations in 2024 were recorded in January (1,056), May (967) and July (952) with the lowest in February (820). Dublin was the area of residence given by 4,125 women, with 957 from Cork and 507 from Galway. A total of 450 women did not disclose their county while eight travelled from Northern Ireland. The number of terminations carried out in 2023 was 10,033. About 240 women travel to the UK from Ireland every year to access abortion care, said the National Women's Council. Barrister Marie O'Shea was commissioned by the Department of Health to conduct a review on foot of the introduction of abortion legislation three years after its implementation in early 2019. Among her recommendations were that the mandatory three-day waiting period, before termination medication can be prescribed, be made optional. Speaking last year, Ms O'Shea called on the Government to prioritise ongoing issues with the legislation, saying vulnerable women who continue to be forced abroad for terminations were being treated like 'criminals'.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Justice Dept. fires more prosecutors, support staff involved in Trump prosecutions, AP sources say
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has fired additional lawyers and support staff who worked on special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions of President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter. The overall number of terminations was not immediately clear but they cut across both the classified documents and election interference prosecutions brought by Smith, and included a handful of prosecutors who were detailed to the probes as well as Justice Department support staff and other non-lawyer personnel who aided them, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel moves that have not been publicly announced. The firings are part of a broader wave of terminations that have roiled the department for months and that have targeted staff who worked on cases involving Donald Trump and his supporters. In January, the Justice Department said that it had fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on prosecutions of Trump, and last month fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases. Days ago, Patty Hartman, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington, whose prosecutors handled the cases against the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol, said in a social media post that she had been handed a letter signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi informing her that she had been fired. Smith's team in 2023 brought separate indictments accusing Trump of hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as well as conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Neither case reached trial. The Supreme Court significantly narrowed the election interference case in a ruling that said former presidents enjoyed broad immunity from prosecution for their official acts, and a Trump-appointed judge dismissed the classified documents case by holding that Smith's appointment as special counsel was illegal. Smith ultimately withdrew both cases in November 2024 after Trump's victory, citing a Justice Department legal opinion that protects sitting presidents from federal prosecution.
Washington Post
4 days ago
- Politics
- Washington Post
Bondi fires 20 Justice Dept. employees involved in Trump prosecutions
Attorney General Pam Bondi this week fired multiple Justice Department employees who were involved in two federal prosecutions of President Donald Trump during the Biden administration, according to several people familiar with the terminations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid retribution. In total, 20 people were fired from the department, including two prosecutors who worked under former special counsel Jack Smith, according to one person familiar with the removals. The rest of the dismissed employees were support staff and marshals who assisted those prosecutors, the person said.
The Independent
5 days ago
- Business
- The Independent
Jeff Bezos' Amazon is purging workers who had status revoked under Trump: report
Amazon is purging warehouse workers who had their work authorizations revoked after President Donald Trump's administration ended an immigration program put in place under President Joe Biden, according to The New York Times. Hundreds of employees at a warehouse in West Jefferson, in central Ohio, have lost their jobs as part of the purge. Across the country, thousands of foreign workers have lost their right to live and work in the U.S. and been removed from jobs where they were in high demand. The Trump administration has orchestrated immigration raids in workplaces and at businesses such as Home Depot seeking out illegal day laborers. A Springfield, Ohio Haitian community leader, Viles Dorsainvil, told The NYT that the dismissals are 'not unique to Amazon,' adding that terminations have also occurred in other warehouses, auto-parts plants, and stores. The removals are taking place at many of Amazon's more than 1,000 facilities across the country. The terminations have affected warehouses in Massachusetts and Staten Island, New York. Hundreds were let go at a warehouse in Florida, The NYT found. Amazon told the The NYT it had prepared for the change in policy by the Trump administration, changing its staffing plans as it waited for guidance from the administration, which arrived in June. The Independent has reached out to Amazon for comment. 'We're supporting employees impacted by the government's recent changes in immigration policy,' a spokesperson for the company told The NYT. Amazon has reportedly informed its workers they may be eligible for free or low-cost outside legal services. The company went on a hiring spree as the pandemic increased demand for deliveries and it provides information in several languages in some of its warehouses, including Spanish, Vietnamese, and Haitian Creole. Other workers at the West Jefferson warehouse come from Afghanistan, Bhutan, and Somalia. However, workers and local officials told the paper that Haitians make up the largest share of foreign workers and may outnumber Americans. The Supreme Court granted a temporary approval on May 30 for the Trump administration to end a program called 'humanitarian parole.' It had allowed more than half a million migrants to quickly get work permits if they had a financial sponsor. The migrants came from countries experiencing political upheaval, such as Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The effort to roll back the program was part of the administration's promise to conduct mass deportations. The Department of Homeland Security said on June 12 that it had started notifying migrants the program was coming to an end, arguing that the migrants had not been properly vetted and that they undercut Americans. As the change was announced, D.H.S. spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said that the end of the program 'will be a necessary return to common-sense policies, a return to public safety and a return to America First.' In a June 22 email obtained by The Times, Amazon told its managers that it had 'received the first list from D.H.S. identifying impacted Amazon employees' from the program, in addition to 'some employees outside of this specific program whose work authorization is similarly affected.' Amazon reportedly told its managers the affected employees would be made aware the following day via a push notification in the employee app. If they couldn't provide alternative documents showing their right to work in the U.S. in the next five days, they would be suspended without pay and subsequently dismissed. 'The Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) has informed us that the work authorization that you had submitted is no longer valid,' the notification stated.
