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The 8th amendment(Mod warning in op)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,057 ✭✭✭.......


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭wingsof daun


    God doesn't exist.

    Your moral are not the same as other people's.stop trying to make people live by your own view of life.

    My morals say I can kill you for food because I'm very hungry, you okay with that? You cannot argue with me because it's just me living by my own morals and no one else can make me live by their view of life, as you said right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,916 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    My morals say I can kill you for food because I'm very hungry, you okay with that? You cannot argue with me because it's just me living by my own morals and no one else can make me live by their view of life, as you said right?

    the law says you cant. so your morals are irrelevant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,916 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Cabaal wrote: »
    Nah, cutting the grass is murder.
    I suppose spreading grass seed on concrete where it can't grow is like masterbating
    :P

    i remember that bit in the bible. Odin wasn't it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Giant banners of a graphic nature being displayed by the pro-life side all around the Irish Times building this lunchtime.

    Great... undoubtedly displaying late term abortions and/or complete lies?
    My morals say I can kill you for food because I'm very hungry, you okay with that? You cannot argue with me because it's just me living by my own morals and no one else can make me live by their view of life, as you said right?


    That would be illegal...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭captbarnacles


    As I said before, this thread has been instructive in showing the poverty of the pro-lifers arguments which range from NIMBY to Slutshaming to 'I wouldn't exist' to this drivel:
    My morals say I can kill you for food because I'm very hungry, you okay with that? You cannot argue with me because it's just me living by my own morals and no one else can make me live by their view of life, as you said right?

    The new wave of pro life posters makes me nearly miss some of the now threadbanned ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,244 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    That's the establishment's angle IMHO. The other perspective the Repeal camp.

    .

    And what's the establishments (made up of white people) reason for this?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    Great... undoubtedly displaying late term abortions and/or complete lies?

    Yes - the one that caught my eye was a picture of a child with a beaten face alongside a picture as you describe, with a caption like "Another huge child abuse scandal on the way" or words to that effect. Did my best to avoid the others.

    I was actually surprised by the age group of those holding it. All 12+ of them were of student age.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,363 ✭✭✭nozzferrahhtoo


    My morals say I can kill you for food because I'm very hungry, you okay with that?

    It is big and honest of you to out yourself as a cannibal. Most people would keep that secret. But yes I am ok with that being your PERSONAL moral system.

    But as long as you want to live in a society with us, it is not your personal morality that is important here. It is the social one. And if you want us to be ok with your morality, then you have to be ok with the fact we will lock you up for a long long time for doing what you apparently want to do.

    Personal morality is mediated by social morality. And Social morality is a subjective discourse and ever changing. So you are MORE than welcome to campaign for your cannibalistic rights. You will likely need to start be explaining why your desire to eat people who also have rights, should trump and negate their rights. I doubt you will have a coherent argument to that effect.

    With abortion however, given that is what this thread has come to be about, we are talking about a fetus at 12 weeks. And I am seeing no reason to consider it an entity with rights. As such, a woman's desire to terminate it is not the same as your desire to terminate a human food source.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭Clair4


    How much does it cost to have an abortion or is it free on the medical card


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  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,564 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Clair4 wrote: »
    How much does it cost to have an abortion or is it free on the medical card

    Right now, in Ireland you don't pay the HSE anything, But you have to import the pills yourself and pay for them yourself.

    It might cost you a 14 year prison sentence though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Yes - the one that caught my eye was a picture of a child with a beaten face alongside a picture as you describe, with a caption like "Another huge child abuse scandal on the way" or words to that effect. Did my best to avoid the others.

    I was actually surprised by the age group of those holding it. All 12+ of them were of student age.

    Fcuking hell :(

    They always wheel out the young uns for maximum visibility though, not surprising they could scrape fifteen or twenty together. That Ascough girl will be piping up again soon too I'd imagine.

    Wouldn't be confident on the media calling out lies, there was a woman on the Newstalk bulletins all day peddling that "100% of Down syndrome pregnancies aborted" crap unchallenged.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Fcuking hell :(

    They always wheel out the young uns for maximum visibility though, not surprising they could scrape fifteen or twenty together. That Ascough girl will be piping up again soon too I'd imagine.
    Students are often idealistic. I know that when I was in my teens I was vehemently anti-choice. As you get life experience your views change.

    That first pregnancy scare is a real eye-opener.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭captbarnacles


    The Down syndrome angle is sad.

    What those using that are doing (although I doubt they realise it) is seeing a person with down syndrome as a down symdrome person.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    kylith wrote: »
    Students are often idealistic. I know that when I was in my teens I was vehemently anti-choice. As you get life experience your views change.

    That first pregnancy scare is a real eye-opener.

    My own situation is exactly the same.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    This really is what this referendum boils down to and what we're being asked to vote on.

    "I want to get my hole at all costs even if if I have to kill a child now and again to do it."
    Mod note: Mrs Shuttleworth, do not post in this thread again.

    Buford T. Justice


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,964 ✭✭✭ForestFire


    As I said before, this thread has been instructive in showing the poverty of the pro-lifers arguments which range from NIMBY to Slutshaming to 'I wouldn't exist' to this drivel:



    The new wave of pro life posters makes me nearly miss some of the now threadbanned ones.

    But at the same time do we need multiple "stupid" post on Killing Grass, 6 Months to having a baby?

    It is not very helpful to the debate to take up pedantic arguments multiple times, even when the point has be clarified.

    You are not arguing about the main issue raised you are just trying to ridicule the other sides poor wording.

    I am talking from someone that does not have a clear side yet, but do agree with options for "early" abortion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭Eponymous


    Giant banners of a graphic nature being displayed by the pro-life side all around the Irish Times building this lunchtime.

    4 months more of this to go. Cant wait
    They were at the gates of the Taoiseach's office yesterday too at lunchtime.

    One of my mates who also passed them said that some of them were wearing GoPros. Can't say I noticed them myself, what with the graphic images on the posters etc., but if that is the case, you should probably be wary if you chose to confront them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭ifElseThen


    Anyone know if the HSE indicated which abortion methods it will provide?

    Up to 12 weeks I'd guess it would be just take this pill?

    I'd vote yes for that.

    The Dilation & Evacuation looks barbaric though and I'd vote no on that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    Eponymous wrote: »
    They were at the gates of the Taoiseach's office yesterday too at lunchtime.

    One of my mates who also passed them said that some of them were wearing GoPros. Can't say I noticed them myself, what with the graphic images on the posters etc., but if that is the case, you should probably be wary if you chose to confront them.

    I was more concerned with keeping my lunch down after seeing the picture tbh


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    ifElseThen wrote: »
    Anyone know if the HSE indicated which abortion methods it will provide?

    Up to 12 weeks I'd guess it would be just take this pill?

    I'd vote yes for that.

    The Dilation & Evacuation looks barbaric though and I'd vote no on that.

    That makes no sense. They are means to the same end.


  • Subscribers Posts: 171 ✭✭Night Falls


    Eponymous wrote: »
    They were at the gates of the Taoiseach's office yesterday too at lunchtime.

    One of my mates who also passed them said that some of them were wearing GoPros. Can't say I noticed them myself, what with the graphic images on the posters etc., but if that is the case, you should probably be wary if you chose to confront them.

    Confrontation is exactly what these people want so that they can play the victim card.

    (Stating the obvious, clearly, but well, y'know)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭ifElseThen


    WhiteRoses wrote: »
    That makes no sense. They are means to the same end.

    When putting down a pet or a euthanasia case, they don't do it via surgical destruction.

    The surgical method doesn't sit right with me.

    So up to 12 weeks it would likely just be pills would it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,461 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Some people believe an unborn human has rights, is it really that hard to understand?

    It is when you see some of that lots attitude towards the born, tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,916 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    ifElseThen wrote: »
    When putting down a pet or a euthanasia case, they don't do it via surgical destruction.

    The surgical method doesn't sit right with me.

    So up to 12 weeks it would likely just be pills would it?


    More than likely but i'm not a doctor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,461 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    ifElseThen wrote: »
    When putting down a pet or a euthanasia case, they don't do it via surgical destruction.

    The surgical method doesn't sit right with me.

    So up to 12 weeks it would likely just be pills would it?

    No, there was no mention of methodology afaik.

    You don't get a vote on the method. Its on repealing the 8th or keeping it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    ifElseThen wrote: »
    When putting down a pet or a euthanasia case, they don't do it via surgical destruction.

    The surgical method doesn't sit right with me.

    So up to 12 weeks it would likely just be pills would it?

    The pill can be used up to 12 weeks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,916 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    kylith wrote: »
    Students are often idealistic. I know that when I was in my teens I was vehemently anti-choice. As you get life experience your views change.

    That first pregnancy scare is a real eye-opener.

    and they can have a lot of free time during the day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    The pill can be used up until 12 weeks gestation, some people will still need surgical abortions though.

    Contrary to popular belief, the fetus is not torn limb from limb during a surgical abortion, the fetus is small enough at that point to be extracted in one piece.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,244 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    The Down syndrome angle is sad.

    What those using that are doing (although I doubt they realise it) is seeing a person with down syndrome as a down symdrome person.

    Strange that they didn't get one of people with downs syndrome abandoned to a home since birth , lucky to get a once a month visit from their family, or someone with a multitude of other medical problems that will serverly limit their lives and make one or both parents in to a full time carer. It's almost as if they want to pretend they don't exist and having a child with downs syndrome is 24/7 sunshine with no issues. The reality is , quite a lot of parents of people with downs syndrome aregoign to have to deal with burying their own children .

    If people don't feel they can deal with the potential hardship then that's their choice.


    They're going on about the high percentage of abortions among downs syndrome diagnosed pregnancies. Are they saying that 90% of the British population is pro choice (think that's the number given for terminations) . Cos it boils down to either the reality sets in once it affects you personally ( where are your Mora.s then) or they are completely delusional and claiming that being pro life prevents downs syndrome?


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