{"id":31900,"date":"2012-10-19T07:27:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=31900"},"modified":"2012-10-19T07:27:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T14:27:56","slug":"time-protests-as-irelands-1st-abortion-clinic-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/10\/19\/time-protests-as-irelands-1st-abortion-clinic-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Time: Protests as Ireland\u2019s 1st Abortion Clinic Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(BELFAST, Northern Ireland) \u2014 The first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland opened Thursday in downtown Belfast, unleashing angry protests on the street and uniting Catholic and Protestant politicians in calls to investigate the new facility.<\/p>\n<p>The clinic, run by the British family planning charity Marie Stopes, will be permitted to provide abortions only in exceptional circumstances to women less than nine weeks pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>But the opening caught Northern Ireland\u2019s socially conservative politicians off guard, and they vowed to launch an investigation into how the clinic operates. About 400 protesters who lined the sidewalk outside the facility all day said they were certain that public pressure would force authorities to shut it.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/world.time.com\/2012\/10\/18\/protests-as-irelands-1st-abortion-clinic-opens\/\" title=\"Protests in Ireland over its First Abortion Clinic\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(BELFAST, Northern Ireland) \u2014 The first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland opened Thursday in downtown Belfast, unleashing angry protests on the street and uniting Catholic and Protestant politicians in calls to investigate the new facility. The clinic, run by the British family planning charity Marie Stopes, will be permitted to provide abortions only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31901,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900\/revisions\/31901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}