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Cora Sherlock | |
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| Deputy Chairperson ofPro Life Campaign | |
| Assumed office 2005; 20 years ago (2005)[1] | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1976 (age 48–49)[2] |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin,Queen's University Belfast |
| Profession | Solicitor |
| Known for | Anti-Abortion campaigning |
Cora Sherlock is a writer, blogger and campaigner in the Irishanti-abortion movement. She is deputy chairperson of thePro Life Campaign.[3] In 2014, she was included inBBC's100 Women series.[4]
Sherlock is fromCollon, County Louth. She studied law atUniversity College Dublin in 1993, and while studying there, she joined the Pro Life Campaign.[2] Sherlock completed a master's degree inQueen's University Belfast and qualified as a solicitor.[citation needed]
She has been a pro-life/anti-abortion campaigner and activist since the early 1990s.[2] As deputy chairperson of the Pro Life Campaign she has written articles in national newspapers, and appeared on radio and TV on the abortion debate in Ireland.
Sherlock called for a yes vote on theTwenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2001. ThePro Life Campaign also called for a yes vote.[5] She argued that "a Yes vote signifies our acceptance of the Government's commitment to find a realistic alternative to abortion, a matter which those who intend to vote No have studiously ignored to date."[citation needed] She voted against theTreaty of Nice in the2001 referendum.[6]
Sherlock was opposed to theProtection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013.[7] She said "It's a bad law, with no evidential basis".[8]
Sherlock was opposed to the referendum on the repeal of theEighth Amendment,[9] which passed. She was opposed to theCitizens Assembly,[10] and has spoken in favour of keeping the Eighth Amendment on newspaper,[11] radio,[12][13][14][15] and TV.[16][17]
Sherlock has spoken on television and radio on behalf of the Pro-Life Campaign and the Love Both campaign, on programmes such as Vincent Browne Tonight and Prime Time. She has contributed articles and opinion pieces to newspapers, includingThe Irish Times,The Sunday Business Post, theIrish Examiner andThe Irish Catholic.
During the 2018 referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, there was controversy when the Pro-Life Campaign wished to remove Sherlock from the RTÉ televised debate with MinisterSimon Harris, in favour ofMaria Steen.[18][19] RTÉ refused to agree to the proposed change, and instead,Peadar Toibin TD was asked to debate on behalf of the Pro-Life side.[20][21]
Sherlock's brother, Leo Sherlock, founded the online news website TheLiberal.ie in 2014. Cora Sherlock contributed articles to the website when it was founded, but none since 2014.[22]
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