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The 8th amendment(Mod warning in op)

RobertKK

The citizens assembly voted to replace or amend the 8th amendment.

50% voted to replace or amend
44% voted to repeal
Rest preferred to not state an opinion

Now deciding how it will be replaced or amended
: Let the Dail legislate on the rights of the unborn
: Amend the provision in the constitution.

Meltdown on twitter by Repealthe8th people.

Mod- This thread has descended in to petty name calling. We've tried to let this thread run without too much mod interference but now it's on our radar we will be watching. From here on the name calling stops. If you can't debate civilly we will remove your right to post.

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AnGaelach

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Ah yes, because obviously social welfare's entire goal is to subsidise abortions. You're stretching every sort of statement under the sun to justify yourself. You'd win gold in the Olympic if they had a category for mental gymnastics.

AnGaelach

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I'd recommend reading the post I was replying to.

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Consonata

AnGaelach wrote: »

Ah yes, because obviously social welfare's entire goal is to subsidise abortions. You're stretching every sort of statement under the sun to justify yourself. You'd win gold in the Olympic if they had a category for mental gymnastics.

And you'd be the man moving the goalposts during the game :pac:

AnGaelach

Consonata wrote: »

And you'd be the man moving the goalposts during the game :pac:

'Tis better than murdering the goalie :P

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AnGaelach wrote: »

Ah yes, because obviously social welfare's entire goal is to subsidise abortions. You're stretching every sort of statement under the sun to justify yourself. You'd win gold in the Olympic if they had a category for mental gymnastics.

And yet you fail to acknowledge that taxpayers money already fund abortion in this country.

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Outlaw Pete

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eviltwin wrote: »

Years ago I worked for a domestic violence service and we had many women using money from the CWO to pay for abortions.

Anyone who thinks tax payers money doesn't fund abortion is sadly wrong

lol. What a nonsense argument.

Lots of dole money gets pissed up against the wall each and every week, so what... should that then mean that we just give anyone on the dole that wants beer a free crate of cans whenever they want one? By your logic it does.

eviltwin

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

lol. What a nonsense argument.

Lots of dole money gets pissed up against the wall each and every week, so what... should that then mean that we just give anyone on the dole that wants beer a free crate of cans whenever they want one? By your logic it does.

I wasn't making an argument there

Murrisk

AnGaelach wrote: »

And the grounds of my opposition to both scenarios are different. I oppose methadone clinics because they're still highly addictive substances and the efficiency of using them to wean people off heroin is questionable. I oppose abortion because it involves the killing of what I believe to be a human life.

Simply seeing opposition to something and thinking it's the same grounds for both highlights a complete lack of nuance.

If you like.

Outlaw Pete

eviltwin wrote: »

I wasn't making an argument there

I meant to include two quotes in that post (which I've edited now and done so) but give me a break... you're not one bit "confused" as to which argument I was referring to.

Your comment was supporting the argument made by the poster which you quoted... the argument that abortion services are accessed using money women have received from social welfare.. remember now? Or are you still confused.

ohnonotgmail

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

I meant to include two quotes in that post (which I've edited now and done so) but give me a break... you're not one bit "confused" as to which argument I was referring to.

Your comment was supporting the argument made by the poster which you quoted... the argument that abortion services are accessed using money women have received from social welfare.. remember now? Or are you still confused.

so you misquoted and it is the other posters fault?

eviltwin

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

I meant to include two quotes in that post (which I've edited now and done so) but give me a break... you're not one bit "confused" as to which argument I was referring to.

Your comment was supporting the argument made by the poster which you quoted... the argument that abortion services are accessed using money women have received from social welfare.. remember now? Or are you still confused.

I wasn't making an argument. I was backing up another posters claim with my anecdotal experience. What any of that has to do with your subsequent post I don't know. Something to do with giving alcohol to people on welfare, no idea what it's got to do with anything.

AnGaelach

bubblypop wrote: »

And yet you fail to acknowledge that taxpayers money already fund abortion in this country.

Taxpayers money funds social welfare, which some people to use to travel for an abortion. That is not it's reason d'etre.

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AnGaelach wrote: »

Taxpayers money funds social welfare, which some people to use to travel for an abortion. That is not it's reason d'etre.

No taxpayers pay for maternity care in hospitals, given that abortion is allowed in this country, in certain circumstances, then taxpayers pay for that.

AnGaelach

bubblypop wrote: »

No taxpayers pay for maternity care in hospitals, given that abortion is allowed in this country, then taxpayers pay for that.

Abortion is allowed when there's a threat to the life of the mother - which I already understand and can agree with. Failing to understand nuance is your problem.

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AnGaelach wrote: »

Abortion is allowed when there's a threat to the life of the mother - which I already understand and can agree with. Failing to understand nuance is your problem.

So you don't have a problem with your taxes funding abortion so.
Good.

njs030

AnGaelach wrote: »

Abortion is allowed when there's a threat to the life of the mother - which I already understand and can agree with. Failing to understand nuance is your problem.

Which is also the case in England.
Doctors have to agree there is risk to the physical or mental health of the woman if the pregnancy continues.

So you would agree with that?

Outlaw Pete

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I wasn't making an argument. I was backing up another posters claim with my anecdotal experience.

By backing up the other user's claim with your 'anecdotal experience' you were in effect giving support to their argument... Jesus H Christ, are you really going to claim you weren't?

What any of that has to do with your subsequent post I don't know. Something to do with giving alcohol to people on welfare, no idea what it's got to do with anything.

'No idea' my arse. You know well the user made the argument that women have used social welfare money to fund abortions and that therefore arguing against the state paying for women to have abortions is pointless.... but the point is that people use dole money to fund all sorts of things: beer drinking, cigarette smoking, getting tattoos etc etc and so it's absurd to make an argument that 'Well, people spend their dole on x and so why doesn't the state officially fund x'.

You then chimed in with your "anecdotal experience" that yes, dole money does indeed fund abortions, rounding it off with the following comment:

Anyone who thinks tax payers money doesn't fund abortion is sadly wrong.

But yet you say you weren't making an argument? Ha.

Incidentally, you were making a strawman argument as the user you were alluding to never said (nor even implied) that money from the state has never been used to fund abortions... what they clearly had been saying was that they didn't believe the state should ever officially do so. Bit of a difference.

You see, the state may fund abortions unofficially but the state / tax payer funds many things unofficially...... all of which would equally as absurd were anyone to suggest the state should be funding on an official basis just because of that.

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NuMarvel

AnGaelach wrote: »

Abortion is allowed when there's a threat to the life of the mother - which I already understand and can agree with. Failing to understand nuance is your problem.

How do you feel about the State paying compensation and damages to women whose human rights have been breached by our abortion laws? Because that's happened twice so far; €15,000 for Ms C in the ACB v Ireland ECHR case, and €30,000 for Amanda Mellet in the UN Human Rights Commission case.

Zubeneschamali

AnGaelach wrote: »

Abortion is allowed when there's a threat to the life of the mother.

Including the risk of suicide.

So all the brazen hussies have to do is convince the docs that they'd rather die than give birth, and then the taxpayer will pay, and you're grand with it.

AnGaelach

NuMarvel wrote: »

How do you feel about the State paying compensation and damages to women whose human rights have been breached by our abortion laws? Because that's happened twice so far; €15,000 for Ms C in the ACB v Ireland ECHR case, and €30,000 for Amanda Mellet in the UN Human Rights Commission case.

I think the Government should have refused to have let the ECHR interfere with our Constitution or public policy. We're the ones who define what our rights are, it's a power given to us by Bunreacht na hÉireann.

Consonata

AnGaelach wrote: »

I think the Government should have refused to have let the ECHR interfere with our Constitution or public policy. We're the ones who define what our rights are, it's a power given to us by Bunreacht na hÉireann.

Without the ECHR, Homosexuality would still be a crime in Ireland.

AnGaelach

Consonata wrote: »

Without the ECHR, Homosexuality would still be a crime in Ireland.

That's unsubstantiated conjecture. Do you think it was the ECHR that made Irish people vote to support the gay marriage referendum?

B_Wayne

AnGaelach wrote: »

That's unsubstantiated conjecture. Do you think it was the ECHR that made Irish people vote to support the gay marriage referendum?

It very much so had a major role in the decriminalization. The late 80s was a significantly different place to Ireland 2015. Hence the need for Norris v Ireland where we were found to breaching human rights. I'm entirely in favour of international bodies holding us to account for human rights violations.

AnGaelach

B_Wayne wrote: »

It very much so had a major role in the decriminalization. The late 80s was a significantly different place to Ireland 2015. Hence the need for Norris v Ireland where we were found to breaching human rights. I'm entirely in favour of international bodies holding us to account for human rights violations.

I'm not saying the case wasn't important. I'm drawing issue with the claim that homosexuality would "still be a crime" if it wasn't for the ECHR. There's absolutely no proof that would be the case, it's completely unsubstantiated.