As part of a media campaign, the anti-abortion group Save the 8th referred to Noel Pattern as a psychiatric nurse

An anti-abortion campaign group has said that it wrongly described a speaker as a nurse because it misunderstood his healthcare experience.

Save the 8th, which campaigns against repeal of the Eighth Amendment, conceded that it was unaware that Noel Pattern, whose testimony has been taken down from its website, had altered evidence provided to the group as proof of his qualifications.

As part of a media campaign launched earlier this month, Save the 8th referred to Mr Pattern as a “psychiatric nurse” in a press release. It quoted him as referring to himself by this title in a lengthy article on its website. It also disseminated a six-minute video where he referred to his role as a “circulating nurse” and spoke of his experience in