In 2016 they welcomed the Irish government's new guidelines on bereavement counselling for grieving parents.
[11] During the debate on the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013, the group called for an exception to allow termination in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities,[12][13] however Taoiseach Enda Kenny claimed it would be unconstitutional to include that.
[14][15] In 2016 the Irish government set up a Citizens' Assembly to discuss Ireland's abortion laws.
TFMR made a submission calling for a repeal of the Eighth Amendment and the removal of abortion from criminal law.
Every Life Counts, a similar support/campaign group for parents of children diagnosed with fatal foetal abnormalities, but who are opposed to change in Ireland's abortion law, were invited.