The Women’s Centre advertises itself as an impartial source of advice for women who want to travel to the UK to access an abortion but has direct links to a Catholic anti-abortion group…A woman working at the clinic, who claimed to be a counsellor, told her that breasts and ovaries were connected and that when a pregnancy ended unexpectedly a woman’s reproductive system could be damaged, causing breast cancer…and that abortion could lead to women abusing their children in the future.
In February 2014, we held a picket outside the anti-choice counselling office on Berkeley Road to oppose the intimidation and lies the ‘clinic’ promoted and its location beside a Marie Stopes service. A report this morning from Ellen Coyne and Catherine Sanz [in The Times Ireland edition] has revealed that the service advises that abortions ’cause breast cancer and can turn women into child abusers’.This service tells women lies, intimidates and cooercives their choices and is directly linked to Catholic anti-abortion groups. We deserve better than this, we deserve to be given factual, non-judgemental information and to be supported in accessing safe and free reproductive choices along the spectrum. Please join us to protest against this service and insist that dangerous, unregulated services such as this are closed.
aloyisious wrote: » Is this "advice" centre coincidentally located VERY near the Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes) Clinic on Berkeley Rd?
Our 5th Annual March for Choice, takes place on Saturday the 24th of September, assembling at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square from 1.30pm, before we march to Dáil Éireann at 2pm. The theme of our March this year is ‘Rise and Repeal’ a comment on the failure of our Republic to fulfil the promise of equality made in 1916. - See more at: http://www.abortionrightscampaign.ie/2016/08/02/rise-and-repeal-march-for-choice-2016/#sthash.kiJfn3v9.dpuf
aloyisious wrote: » I appreciate Simon Harris saying he'll look at the rules
“I think its extremely important that politicians of all sorts give leadership, and leadership to the public that actually voted them into office. “And that if there’s something so serious as an attempt to undermine the 8th amendment to the Constitution going on, that we’ve got to stand up, we’ve got to show a little bit of backbone anyway.” Independent Leitrim Councillor Des Guckian talking to Newstalk this morning after Leitrim councillors passed his motion opposed to “any attempts to repeal or water down the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution” [which provides for a constitutional ban on abortion].
He ran for local office on a number of occasions before being elected to Leitrim County Council in 2014. He also ran in a 2014 by-election but failed to secure a seat. He has campaigned strongly against the repealing of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution which grants an equal right to life for both a mother and an unborn child.
Cabaal wrote: » what do we know about Des Guckian? well - he's a one trick pony it seems
aloyisious wrote: » That's a lot of abstentions on both proposal votes. Hopefully the outcome on any real vote will be different. Ballymagash UDC sprang to mind
Absolam wrote: » “Emigration of our sons and daughters should no longer be tolerated.” Cllr Guckian adds: “The political parties have let us down badly. The powers-that-be want to abolish Co Councils and local autonomy. My record as a Leitrim Councillor shows I have a sense of fairness and the ability to tackle the 'Status Quo'.”
Pherekydes wrote: » He's against migration. And Status Quo. Though why anyone in Leitrim should have anything against Status Quo is a mystery. Too Loud?
Absolam wrote: » Cheap Trick fan?
aloyisious wrote: » Ballymagash UDC [...]
Pherekydes wrote: » Though why anyone in Leitrim should have anything against Status Quo is a mystery. Too Loud?
aloyisious wrote: » That's a lot of abstentions on both proposal votes. Hopefully the outcome on any real vote will be different.
aloyisious wrote: » There's a gent naming himself Patrick as the director of the advice clinic next to the Reproductive Choices centre on the Joe Duffy show having a bit of a rant at Joe. He just called Joe a liar, shortly after saying a 15 year-old girl was murdered (his words) at a Marie Stopes clinic in London. He was invited on to speak about a protest outside his advice centre last night, what he called Rent-A-Mob. Ah, Simon Harris, according to Patrick, is a liar. Peter Boylan has just joined the live debate.
DavyD_83 wrote: » Peter Boylan was dismissed as an ignoramus.
stinkle wrote: » And in a comments section of one of the newspapers, so was a retired biology professor, who had worked on conditions that develop in utero. One of the Brexit concerns was the dismissal of experts in their field as trying to brainwash the general public. It's worrying to see it occur here too.
lazygal wrote: » Breda O'Brien also tried to tell Boylan about the interpretation of blood tests and how to treat sepsis on a radio programme. She's a religion teacher, yet she felt entitled to cut across actual expertise.
lazygal wrote: » It's very common with anti choicers.
Absolam wrote: » Should we continue the snarl fest by calling those on the other side of the discussion anti lifers? I thought everyone was getting over the need to mischaracterise others in order to feel secure in their opinions. Still, even going by this thread alone I think it's fair to say pro choice proponents are quite happy to ignore facts when it suits their agenda... so pro life pundits aren't the only ones who it could be said it's very common with.
pauldla wrote: » Frostyjacks is an expert, and lazygal cut across him?
Absolam wrote: » Gosh no! Lazygal was trying to sell the notion that the maternity system here removes the right to informed consent from pregnant women because of the eighth amendment; ignoring the fact that there is no abrogation to the right to informed consent (such as exists) for anyone because of the 8th, or for any other reason. Pregnant women have as much right to informed consent as any other patient in the Irish medical system.
