aloyisious wrote: » Swiftly done to death.
aloyisious wrote: » I saw the new Ad for Carphone Warehouse oo a bus-shelter making a play on the words "We're Pro-choice"" to sell mobile phones. I'm waiting, almost, for concerned members of the public to pick it up wrong and start a "boycott Carphone Warehouse" in the belief that it's promoting activities to lead to the deletion of Amendment 8.
Pro-life protest at Carphone Warehouse in Cork. Don't think they got the memo that Carphone Warehouse are just pro-themselves.
Dr J @JoanneOSulliva6 1d@deniseodonoghue I've been needing a new phone. Can't wait to cross this picket. @CarphoneIE take my money please! ������
aloyisious wrote: » Unusual use of words - [A High Court judge refused to grant the HSE orders forcing a pregnant woman to have a Caesarean section (CS) against her will so as to vindicate the right to life of her unborn child, it has emerged] - mentioned in this Irish Times report of an "in-camera" court case heard in recent weeks where a judge refused to give the HSE an order forcing a woman to have a caesarean section delivery against her will, as the 8th does not seem to have been invoked by either side in the case.http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/judge-refused-to-order-woman-to-undergo-caesarean-section-1.2852130
rainbow kirby wrote: » Makes you wonder just how much coercion goes on behind closed doors - Irish maternity hospitals not exactly being paragons of respecting bodily autonomy...
aloyisious wrote: » The Ads been pulled, seem's it's now "your choice" according to the Brendan O'Connor show on RTE discussing the original Ad.
expectationlost wrote: » they got what they wanted
Absolam wrote: » I suspect it may depend less on a desire to interfere with bodily autonomy and more on a desire to minimise the risk to patients... which is kind of what doctors are supposed to do?
rainbow kirby wrote: » There are plenty of things done routinely in hospitals in Ireland that are not supported by evidence based practice - routine amniotomy is on the Do Not Perform list according to NICE in the UK, some of the lowest VBAC and breastfeeding rates in the world, active management of labour shows a complete misunderstanding of the process and is a relic of the 60s..
Her refusal to follow medical advice in the context of her unborn child raised a more difficult issue because of Article 40.3.3, which protects the right to life of the unborn, he said. The increased risk to the unborn did not justify a court order forcing the woman to have the CS the foetus
recedite wrote: » The pertinent point in that case was that the mother was not trying to abort the foetus. She stupidly thought she knew better than the obstetrican's, refused to agree to the caesarian, caused the hospital a lot of trouble and legal expense, and then finally changed her mind and agreed it was best after all.
The woman believed seeking a natural labour would expose her to a 3 per cent risk of uterine rupture and the risk of uterine rupture from an elective CS was between 0-1 per cent. The obstetric evidence guessed the risk from a trial of labour could be higher but that was only a guess as a natural delivery had never happened in an Irish hospital after three CS, the judge noted.
QuackWatch wrote: The directives prohibit a range of reproductive health services, including contraception, sterilization, many infertility treatments, and abortion, even when a woman's health or life is jeopardized by a pregnancy. of hospitals adhere in part or in full to these directives. of these prohibit staff physicians from performing an abortion or sterilization even when this denial of care puts a patient at serious risk. states have laws that shield providers who follow the guidelines from liability that otherwise would be considered malpractice. federal laws and regulations require all hospitals to provide emergency care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should systematically apply these regulations to Catholic Hospitals.
Absolam wrote: » And of course no need to negotiate a wall....
aloyisious wrote: » Something tells me that if Don and Co start resetting the laws in the US about abortion in January next, there'll be a lot of cross-border travel (north and south) by US female citizens. It's likely Canada might be the favoured choice, given how Wikipedia states that it has abortion legal at all stages of pregnancy.
Hotblack Desiato wrote: » no doubt a couple more SC judges will now feel safe to retire which they didn't under the what they'd call the h o u s e n i g g e r Obama presidency, in the knowledge they'll now be succeeded by much younger anti-choice bible bashers who will do their best to subvert the US constitution for decades to come.
Hotblack Desiato wrote: » There's one Supreme Court vacancy outstanding, now that there's a (nominal) Repubnicnut in the White House no doubt a couple more SC judges will now feel safe to retire which they didn't under the what they'd call the h o u s e n i g g e r Obama presidency, in the knowledge they'll now be succeeded by much younger anti-choice bible bashers who will do their best to subvert the US constitution for decades to come. The Republicnuts should be called out on this - their opposition to the Obama administration is openly racist.
aloyisious wrote: » I'm waiting to see who Don has in his new Admin, in say the health dept. It seems Don has Ken Blackwell from the "Family research Council in his transition team...... The FRC promotes traditional family values, by advocating and lobbying for socially conservative policies. It opposes and lobbies against LGBT rights (such as same-sex marriage, same-sex civil unions, and LGBT adoption), abortion, divorce, embryonic stem-cell research and pornography. Tony Perkins is the current president of the FRC. I can't help but laugh at the divorce bit and Ken's advisory role to Don.
