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The 8th amendment(Mod warning in op)

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


    Edward M wrote: »
    I'm not the worlds best dad, but I have tried to be the best dad I was or am capable of being, if that doesent meet your approval or high standards so be it.

    As I said in the opening of my post, my standards I only apply to myself. The parenting of others neither needs to meet it, nor do I ever apply one to the other generally.

    I just know I would feel dirty in myself if I ever contrived to manipulate such serious life choices in my children. Especially by offering things that I feel I should be offering as a parent anyway, in the form of compulsions, incentives and manipulation.

    I think I just prefer the dynamic of "These are the things you can expect from me always as a parent, pleasure ensure you factor them into whatever choice you decide to make" over "If you would only make these choices, then here are the things I can offer you as an incentive to do so".

    Foah, just shivered again. I do not often feel this much revulsion at envisioning alternative versions of myself. But the thought of operating that dynamic in a relationship with my children is exactly that. Repulsive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Presage wrote: »
    It does differ, the mother had no choice in the matter much like the unborn child has no choice in the matter when it comes to rape.
    It differs from the mother's perspective, not the unborn's.
    In the case of consensual sex the mother had a choice in the matter and should be aware that there is a risk of becoming pregnant when having sex. Morality is not simply black and white, it is often a quite complex equation where the balance can be tipped by some minor changes to the assumptions.
    So the unborn is irrelevant then. People who become unintentionally pregnant through consensual sex should be forced to carry to term, but those who've been raped...shouldn't.

    Why? Bearing in mind that through your statement above you've basically discounted the unborn in your reasoning; it's all about the circumstances of the conception, not the result of it. So why should consensual sex be "punished" when non-consensual shouldn't?


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


    Presage wrote: »
    Nope, the entire equation needs to be considered, it's not balck and white.

    Please explain how.

    Two people are in a relationship. They want to have sex, but do not want a baby. They use contraception, but it fails. Some people will tell them that they should have thought about that before they had sex, and tough luck; they have to have the baby.

    How is that not saying that sex should only be had if they are prepared to have a baby?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Presage wrote: »
    Nope, the entire equation needs to be considered, it's not balck and white.

    what equation?
    its not maths

    we're talking about a woman's body here and her right to have a choice


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭Edward M


    As I said in the opening of my post, my standards I only apply to myself. The parenting of others neither needs to meet it, nor do I ever apply one to the other generally.

    I just know I would feel dirty in myself if I ever contrived to manipulate such serious life choices in my children. Especially by offering things that I feel I should be offering as a parent anyway, in the form of compulsions, incentives and manipulation.

    I think I just prefer the dynamic of "These are the things you can expect from me always as a parent, pleasure ensure you factor them into whatever choice you decide to make" over "If you would only make these choices, then here are the things I can offer you as an incentive to do so".

    Foah, just shivered again. I do not often feel this much revulsion at envisioning alternative versions of myself. But the thought of operating that dynamic in a relationship with my children is exactly that. Repulsive.

    I don't know your age, nor how long you are a parent.
    I do know from experience the first thing a child learns is how to manipulate their parents.
    I also know from my own experience that one of the first things I learned was how to manipulate my children, firstly to just get a bit of peace and quiet for myself and my partner or wife.
    I have manipulated them all my life, especially when they were younger, to do what I thought was in their best interests, re education particularly.
    I never stooped so low as making or forcing any lifestyle decisions on them, I showed them choices, I offered them assistance at every turn.
    Did I manipulate them, yes, as their guardian I did offer them things for certain that I thought might help them make decisions that I thought were for their better good.
    When they became adults I stepped back and let them make their own decisions on any matter they liked, if I didn't like it I told them so and why, like for instance I told my son if he quit college one time that he would have to either get a job or live on what social welfare was available to him, no financial help from me.
    He stayed on, got his degree and is working full time now, I borrowed from the credit union to buy his first car as a reward.
    You' feel dirty manipulating your children and shudder at the thought, don't make me laugh,
    If there is a parent alive who hasn't manipulated a child I'd like to meet them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,637 ✭✭✭volchitsa


    Bringing a child into a young and possibly unstable relationship is not good for the young people involved. All the evidence shows that having a baby when young leads to less good outcomes.

    So any forcible incitement is being done for ideological reasons and not for the good of the person being "manipulated". Which is what makes it manipulation rather than tough parenting IMO.

    ”I enjoy cigars, whisky and facing down totalitarians, so am I really Winston Churchill?” (JK Rowling)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭JDD


    Edward M wrote: »
    No I'm not really. Our first grandchild is due next month BTW.
    I know full well abortion covers all ages and reasons.

    Well, then in the case where it is not a matter of financial concern, nor is there realistically a prospect of her handing over a child to you to raise, what would you do? Supposing she asked you to mind her children while she travelled with her husband to the UK for a termination? Maybe she wouldn’t ask you knowing your views, so she travels on her own, having to stay the night in a local hotel suffering intense cramps and bleeding on her own. She wouldn’t want
    to leave her children for longer than she had to, so she continues to have cramps and bleeding while she gets a taxi to the airport, and on the airplane. Or she decides to order pills over the internet, all the while worrying that if she suffers from any side effects and goes to A&E will they call the guards. Do you think it would be an acceptable situation for your daughter to be faced with?


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


    Edward M wrote: »
    I have manipulated them all my life, especially when they were younger, to do what I thought was in their best interests, re education particularly.
    Edward M wrote: »
    You' feel dirty manipulating your children and shudder at the thought, don't make me laugh

    This is why I peppered my last two points with reference to words like "context". I clearly am not saying, nor did I intend to imply, that there is no situation where you want to manipulate and compel your children in certain directions.

    What I was saying was repulsive to me is a LOT more nuanced and specific than what you describe as mere general parenting. What I was describing, and what you are now describing, are two very different things in many ways.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭Edward M


    JDD wrote: »
    Well, then in the case where it is not a matter of financial concern, nor is there realistically a prospect of her handing over a child to you to raise, what would you do? Supposing she asked you to mind her children while she travelled with her husband to the UK for a termination? Maybe she wouldn’t ask you knowing your views, so she travels on her own, having to stay the night in a local hotel suffering intense cramps and bleeding on her own. She wouldn’t want
    to leave her children for longer than she had to, so she continues to have cramps and bleeding while she gets a taxi to the airport, and on the airplane. Or she decides to order pills over the internet, all the while worrying that if she suffers from any side effects and goes to A&E will they call the guards. Do you think it would be an acceptable situation for your daughter to be faced with?[unrelated,

    Firstly, I would think and hope that my daughters know they can talk to me about anything, they would know also that my help would be available in all situations now.
    Another point, unrelated in a way, but an experience I could have had but thankfully never did, others have had it though.
    If my daughters had become pregnant at an early age, under 18 say or much younger even, and abortion had been considered as her option, would or should that give me or her mother the right to choose for her as her legal guardians?
    If she wasn't fully developed and we felt that this would harm her physically let alone mentally.
    What if she wanted the abortion and we didn't?
    So many valid questions to be asked and answered here, there can't be the same answer to them all for every eventual outcome, so on that and other issues I reckon that an abortion service has to be available really, it is the only humanitarian solution really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt




    So not is Noel Pattern not a nurse, he is also a gobshíte.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    To be honest, I get why (some) people are ProLife. You want to protect those that have no voice of their own.

    To me, I think it stems from them thinking "Well, if my mother had an abortion, I wouldn't be here." But she may also have had a dodgy prawn cocktail before she knew she was pregnant, and the outcome could have been the same. Or another sperm may have made it, and not the one that did, and "you" wouldn't be you.

    Pregnancies terminate every day. Both the ones that are wanted, and the ones that aren't. Some people are devestated, some will be glad. And women have been ending pregnancies since day dot. Be it gin and a hot bath, or a pill they bought online, it happens. Why not make it safer for the ones that require it, and support for those that are on the fence?

    Look, I say this as a 34 year old married man, who had a pregnancy scare with girlfriend (now wife), and a miscarriage of a much wanted baby, and someone who was told by his mother that, had she known about my condition and the horrors both she and I went through and was easily available, she would have considered an abortion (and that was '83, full swing of the last referendum, and you had stamps like this http://img2.thejournal.ie/inline/1225698/original/?width=373&version=1225698)

    Make it safe, make it shameless, and make it not needed.

    And lads, it's not like adoption is a bunch of ****ing roses either. There were, what, 16(?) last year, and so much for the Married Gheys adopting all the babbies. It's a long, hard, ****ty process, we don't exactly have a stellar history (to this very day) of looking after children IN care, and you want to dump a load more into care? Please tell me how that's in anyway way kinder than ending a pregnancy before it has a chance to feel pain?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,378 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Gintonious wrote: »


    So not is Noel Pattern not a nurse, he is also a gobshíte.
    Sure didnt our lord jesus h christ ride with mary to bethlehem on a velociraptor!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    Edward M wrote: »
    I don't know your age, nor how long you are a parent.
    I do know from experience the first thing a child learns is how to manipulate their parents.
    I also know from my own experience that one of the first things I learned was how to manipulate my children, firstly to just get a bit of peace and quiet for myself and my partner or wife.
    I have manipulated them all my life, especially when they were younger, to do what I thought was in their best interests, re education particularly.
    I never stooped so low as making or forcing any lifestyle decisions on them, I showed them choices, I offered them assistance at every turn.
    Did I manipulate them, yes, as their guardian I did offer them things for certain that I thought might help them make decisions that I thought were for their better good.
    When they became adults I stepped back and let them make their own decisions on any matter they liked, if I didn't like it I told them so and why, like for instance I told my son if he quit college one time that he would have to either get a job or live on what social welfare was available to him, no financial help from me.
    He stayed on, got his degree and is working full time now, I borrowed from the credit union to buy his first car as a reward.
    You' feel dirty manipulating your children and shudder at the thought, don't make me laugh,
    If there is a parent alive who hasn't manipulated a child I'd like to meet them.

    I agree Edward. Totally.

    But... please use paragraphs. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    A simple Google search will agree with me. The majority of abortions are performed on unborn girls because the mothers wanted boys instead. This is a well known trend. I can't provide a link to proof because I don't have enough posts to.

    You can give names of articles and research papers. No links required.

    So, yup, I’d like to see the evidence that the vast majority (like you said) of abortions carried out in the UK and those of most Irish women travelling over to the UK are abortions of female foetuses.

    A little reminder in case you forget: you don’t need to post links, you can provide locations for the evidence in other ways.


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


    My mother in law would have been pro life and aggressively so until me and her son had an abortion. She was completely supportive and minded our daughter when we went and has been our biggest defender. Now she's 100% pro choice. You can't really support something for your loved ones and then deny it for everyone elses loved ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    kylith wrote: »
    So we’re back to ‘people should only have sex if they’re prepared to have a baby’.

    Sure it's easy. The proponents of the above can even tell you how to do it if needed "keep your legs closed"


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Anyone get their cheque from Soros this week?

    Mine never came


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,948 ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    kylith wrote: »
    So we’re back to ‘people should only have sex if they’re prepared to have a baby’.

    Perhaps the women of Ireland should follow the lead of the Icelandic women and impose a sex strike until May. :p
    And lads, it's not like adoption is a bunch of ****ing roses either. There were, what, 16(?) last year, and so much for the Married Gheys adopting all the babbies. It's a long, hard, ****ty process, we don't exactly have a stellar history (to this very day) of looking after children IN care, and you want to dump a load more into care? Please tell me how that's in anyway way kinder than ending a pregnancy before it has a chance to feel pain?

    Agreed. People who spout about adoption as an alternative are spectacularly missing the point.

    Adoption used to be about a childless couple getting to choose a child of their own. In fact back when the mass trafficking of children to America from the homes, more thought and paperwork went into picking out a car than picking up an insta-family.

    Now, quite rightly, the focus is on placing a child with the right family for the child. Adoption is a long and costly process for a couple where every single aspect of your lives is scrutinised (and the lives of those in your extended family too) by social workers to ensure that the child has a good life. Anything less is failing the child. One of you is expected to be a full time parent (adoptees often have behavioural or emotional challenges that need extra attention) You are expected (on that single income!) to have a healthy bank account. You are expected to be under a certain age. You would be expected to have no health issues, no mental health issues, no dodgy people in the family and so on.

    It's not a matter of handing out babies to anyone who wants one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,948 ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    This morning I got thinking about all this debate. I thought about the few people I know who had diagnosed FFA pregnancies and who choose to carry to term.

    One couple has a child now with significant & severe special needs. Another got a few precious days with their baby. Others were born sleeping. In all of those cases, the couples involved got amazing care from hospital staff, or from organisations such as Feilecain. Other professionals in their fields have donated their time or their skills to try to give a couple reeling during incredibly painful time some lasting memories. There were photographers giving them precious photos, seamstresses and knitters making delicate beautiful gowns for their babies to give you just a couple of examples of what folk do for newly bereaved parents.

    Down the line, I've seen the difficulty with the actual reality of having a disabled child who survived from a FFA diagnosis. The endless appointments, therapies and hospital stays far away from home. Waiting on multiple waiting lists. Home help. Respite care. Home nursing. Wheelchair ramps. Adaptable cars. Hoists, adult nappies, adaptation of homes and furniture to accommodate a disabled growing child. There are various organisations, charities and HSE outpatient supports that help parents with some of this but it's still a daily struggle.

    But I wondered where LoveBoth were in all of that? In the beginning to support people going through that pregnancy? Afterwards when the baby was born?

    Not once did I ever hear, out of all of the organisations that supported my friends, that the service or assistance the parents of a special needs baby was provided by LoveBoth. Not so much as a baby hat. I wondered what they actually do for the babies they love so much. Maybe they provide bereavement counselling I thought. Or helped with funeral costs? Or maybe they offer a NICU nurse support so they could briefly bring their baby home for a few days? I was sure that they offer some sort of help...because they love both, right?

    So I googled to check. And they don't appear to provide a thing. Not a single link to a support or a service for a crisis pregnancy, rape, FFA, or post-natal supports.

    Absolutely nothing. Love Both my arse.


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


    I wonder, the crowd here who reckon "status quo is fine, travelling to England is fine", have ye considered the rather large Brexit shaped hole about to appear in the status quo? If ye voted no, repeal was defeated and from next year on people had to go considerably further afield, would ye be comfortable with your vote?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Gintonious wrote: »


    So not is Noel Pattern not a nurse, he is also a gobsh.

    “Fundamentalist Christianity: fascinating. These people actually believe that the world is twelve thousand years old. Swear to God. Based on what? I asked them.

    "Well, we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages? Twelve thousand years."
    "Well, how ****ing scientific, OK. I didn't know that you'd gone to so much trouble there. That's good. You believe the world's twelve thousand years old?"
    "That's right."
    "OK, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?"
    "Uh huh."
    "Dinosaurs."

    You know, the world's twelve thousand years old and dinosaurs existed, and existed in that time, you'd think it would been mentioned in the ****ing Bible at some point:

    And O, Jesus and the disciples walked to Nazareth. But the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus... with a splinter in its paw. And the disciples did run a-screamin'. "What a big ****ing lizard, Lord!"
    "I'm sure gonna mention this in my book," Luke said.
    "Well, I'm sure gonna mention it in my book," Matthew said.
    But Jesus was unafraid. And he took the splinter from the brontosaurus paw, and the brontosaurus became his friend. And Jesus sent him to Scotland where he lived in a loch, O so many years, attracting fat American families with their fat ****in' dollars to look for the Loch Ness Monster. And O the Scots did praise the Lord: "Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,948 ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    I wonder, the crowd here who reckon "status quo is fine, travelling to England is fine", have ye considered the rather large Brexit shaped hole about to appear in the status quo? If ye voted no, repeal was defeated and from next year on people had to go considerably further afield, would ye be comfortable with your vote?

    They probably have no issue with that.

    They've never cared about the continuity of care, the cost, the fact that only women who have a right to travel and the money to do so could avail of an abortion.

    And from the small demographic of boards posters who are NIMBY's they appear to be males so will never be making that cramping bleeding journey home or being out of pocket themselves.

    So they aren't going to care if women have more limited options after Brexit than we already do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭robarmstrong


    I've just had the following on Facebook with a staunch outspoken pro-lifer.

    I asked the following -

    Me: Do you think that a woman should be forced to carry a pregnancy full term that she doesn't want or is incapable of supporting just to satisfy your own personal beliefs?

    Person: Course they shouldn't, but there is more than herself to think of *goes on about adoption etc*

    Me: So you DON'T think a woman should be forced to carry a pregnancy full term that she doesn't want or is incapable of supporting just to satisfy your own personal beliefs? So am I correct that she should have the option/choice of abortion here?

    Person: I get where you're coming from but like I said there's more than her to think of there's another HUMAN.

    Me : Am I correct, yes or no, am I correct? You've already agreed that a woman with an unwanted pregnancy shouldn't have to carry her belief so what's her choice? You very clearly agreed that she shouldn't have to, so what choice does she have if she ISN'T being forced to keep her unwanted pregnancy, abortion, correct?

    Person: *dodges answer with long spiel about adoption again then pulls out this whopper* - abortion is like saying if a parent had a child and suddenly couldn't cope after a few years would you tell them to kill that child?

    Me: no I wouldn't, that child has been born, the sub-12 week fetus has not.

    Person: Born or not it's the same thing, no difference at all!

    Me: So you're equating a couple of years old toddler to a sub-12 week fetus now?


    - at this point I got blocked.


    you can lead a horse to water....


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


    Neyite wrote: »
    This morning I got thinking about all this debate. I thought about the few people I know who had diagnosed FFA pregnancies and who choose to carry to term.

    One couple has a child now with significant & severe special needs. Another got a few precious days with their baby. Others were born sleeping. In all of those cases, the couples involved got amazing care from hospital staff, or from organisations such as Feilecain. Other professionals in their fields have donated their time or their skills to try to give a couple reeling during incredibly painful time some lasting memories. There were photographers giving them precious photos, seamstresses and knitters making delicate beautiful gowns for their babies to give you just a couple of examples of what folk do for newly bereaved parents.

    Down the line, I've seen the difficulty with the actual reality of having a disabled child who survived from a FFA diagnosis. The endless appointments, therapies and hospital stays far away from home. Waiting on multiple waiting lists. Home help. Respite care. Home nursing. Wheelchair ramps. Adaptable cars. Hoists, adult nappies, adaptation of homes and furniture to accommodate a disabled growing child. There are various organisations, charities and HSE outpatient supports that help parents with some of this but it's still a daily struggle.

    But I wondered where LoveBoth were in all of that? In the beginning to support people going through that pregnancy? Afterwards when the baby was born?

    Not once did I ever hear, out of all of the organisations that supported my friends, that the service or assistance the parents of a special needs baby was provided by LoveBoth. Not so much as a baby hat. I wondered what they actually do for the babies they love so much. Maybe they provide bereavement counselling I thought. Or helped with funeral costs? Or maybe they offer a NICU nurse support so they could briefly bring their baby home for a few days? I was sure that they offer some sort of help...because they love both, right?

    So I googled to check. And they don't appear to provide a thing. Not a single link to a support or a service for a crisis pregnancy, rape, FFA, or post-natal supports.

    Absolutely nothing. Love Both my arse.

    This needs to be shared everywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭JDD


    Firstly, I would think and hope that my daughters know they can talk to me about anything, they would know also that my help would be available in all situations now.
    Another point, unrelated in a way, but an experience I could have had but thankfully never did, others have had it though.
    If my daughters had become pregnant at an early age, under 18 say or much younger even, and abortion had been considered as her option, would or should that give me or her mother the right to choose for her as her legal guardians?
    If she wasn't fully developed and we felt that this would harm her physically let alone mentally.
    What if she wanted the abortion and we didn't?
    So many valid questions to be asked and answered here, there can't be the same answer to them all for every eventual outcome, so on that and other issues I reckon that an abortion service has to be available really, it is the only humanitarian solution really.

    You know, you sound like a great Dad and I'm sure you daughters probably would come to you for help or support, even if they did know that your beliefs were different to theirs.

    It's a difficult question regarding a pregnancy that occurs in a young teenager, whether a parent would have the choice to have the pregnancy terminated or indeed whether their permission would be needed before the pill was prescribed. Perhaps doctors could given some guidance on assessing whether an individual child has the necessary capacity/maturity to consent or refuse medical treatment. I believe they have some similar guidelines regarding the prescription of contraceptives.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭Edward M


    JDD wrote: »
    You know, you sound like a great Dad and I'm sure you daughters probably would come to you for help or support, even if they did know that your beliefs were different to theirs.

    It's a difficult question regarding a pregnancy that occurs in a young teenager, whether a parent would have the choice to have the pregnancy terminated or indeed whether their permission would be needed before the pill was prescribed. Perhaps doctors could given some guidance on assessing whether an individual child has the necessary capacity/maturity to consent or refuse medical treatment. I believe they have some similar guidelines regarding the prescription of contraceptives.

    Tbh, I had never given the issue much thought until recently. I had my opinion on it, I didn't agree with abortion, that was it.
    I can't remember the last referendum, whether I voted or not, I was old enough, but at that time I wouldn't have been worried or even thinking of the rights or wrongs of it, football, college, drink and a good life would have been all I was concerned with.
    I started on this thread here with a preconceived ideal of abortion and the circumstances it should only be allowed in, because I never thought of it from a position of, what if someone I loved had this ordeal or crisis to deal with, would I disown them and shut them out of my life.
    The answer would be no, I certainly wouldn't.
    Reading and interacting here has vastly changed my outlook on the subject, life could be so hard for some because of forced ideals.
    There are a lot more justifiable reasons for a reasonable abortion policy than I would have thought of.
    The poster Pilly made me think on that the other day, he/she pointed out, correctly when I look back, that my points had been repeated many times.
    I looked back and found when I did that my reasoning against abortion was quite narrow.
    Other posters posts about other reasons that I hadnt thought of, oh yeah, that's a fair point, if I was in that position with my daughters or any loved one I could agree with that as a reason for abortion.
    This thread has changed my narrow preconceived ideals, health, rape or abuse are only a small portion of realistic reasons for repeal of the eighth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Presage wrote: »
    There are multiple factors to consider when attempting to discern the correct moral decision to take.

    For example by your simplistic logic it should be perfectly legal to abort at 30 weeks or to make it legal to stage gladiatoral contests to the death once all particpants make the choice to participate.

    No. The simple logic here is the morally right thing to do is to allow women the freedom to make this decision.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,771 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    I wonder, the crowd here who reckon "status quo is fine, travelling to England is fine", have ye considered the rather large Brexit shaped hole about to appear in the status quo? If ye voted no, repeal was defeated and from next year on people had to go considerably further afield, would ye be comfortable with your vote?

    Yes, if one doesn't believe something is right, then it doesn't matter how far someone has to travel for what one believes is wrong.

    Some view killing the unborn as something that is fine to do. Others view the killing of the unborn as something that is conscientiously the taking of a life.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    I often wonder what may 23rd 2015 was like for those people that voted against marriage equality. It must have rankled and probably hurt in some cases given the majority of the country was celebrating and Ireland was headlines worldwide for making such a progressive and astounding lurch into the real world and for equality.
    And especially given those people fought so hard against it with bull**** fear lies and hysteria.
    This is like deja vu. Really is. We’re moving on into the real world at last yet some people are totally against that. It’s so weird. I hope someone is writing a book about it.
    (Not you David Quinn. Not you).


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


    I wonder, the crowd here who reckon "status quo is fine, travelling to England is fine", have ye considered the rather large Brexit shaped hole about to appear in the status quo? If ye voted no, repeal was defeated and from next year on people had to go considerably further afield, would ye be comfortable with your vote?

    This is complete fallacy. Do you think travel to the UK, our nearest neighbours, is going to suddenly stop because of Brexit?

    The bussiest European route between two cites is going to come to a halt in a year, dublin to london 4.7million per annum.

    I think there enough reasons on the pro choice side without this.


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