Pro Life Campaign
| Formation | March 1992 |
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| Headquarters | Suite 60, Clifton House, Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2, |
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Deputy Chairperson
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Cora Sherlock |
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Legal Advisor
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William Binchy |
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Honorary President
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Des Hanafin |
| Website | ProLifeCampaign |
Pro Life Campaign (PLC) is an Irish anti-abortion advocacy organisation. Its primary spokesperson is Cora Sherlock. It is a non-denominational organisation which promotes pro-life education and defends human life at all stages from conception to natural death, and opposes abortion in all circumstances.
The Pro Life Campaign was established in 1992. Its office is located in Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin.
After the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland was ratified in September 1983, a number of those involved in that campaign, including some lawyers, decided to initiate legal proceedings through SPUC (Ireland). The targets were two pregnancy advisory agencies in Dublin. The cases started in 1985, won at the Supreme Court of Ireland (1988) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (1992). That same year, the X case arose, and abortion in potentially wide circumstances was endorsed by the Irish Supreme Court.
The group that had planned the SPUC (Ireland) cases at once advised the setting up of the Pro Life Campaign (PLC). Within a week of the court judgement, it had set up an office in North Great Georges Street and held its first press conference on 10 March. The chairman, and later honorary president, was Des Hanafin, who had played a central role in the 1983 campaign.
Pro Life Campaign is a trading name of VIE Ltd, a private limited company incorporated in Ireland in June 1993. It's founding directors were Joe McCarroll, Owen Doyle, Mary Barrett, John O'Reilly, Barry Kiely, Des Hanafin, Marie Vernon, Catherine Bannon, Jerry Collins, Michael Lucey and Desmond McDoland.
In 1992, in the wake of the X Case, there were three abortion referendums in Ireland (12th, 13th and 14th). The Pro Life Campaign called for a no vote on 12th and 14th Amendment and was strongly opposed to the 13th, but did not call for a No vote.
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