Does anyone feel insulted by the abortion proposals?

Abortion rights have to be a doorstep question for the next elections.
You have to email your TDs and let them know what your stance is and ask all the candidates who do run their stance is.

kylith wrote: »

The whole system is in dire need of someone to walk in and ask them if they're all fúcking insane.

SO MUCH THIS

George Carlin said it best.

Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're ****ed.

refused a request for a termination because the foetal heartbeat was still present. She was told a termination was not possible in such circumstances, and that it was “a Catholic thing”.

It shouldn't be a ****ing Catholic Thing!!! It should be a for the good of the patient thing. Laws shouldn't be written for the good of a single religion, they should be written for the good of the people as a whole regardless of belief or lack thereof!! Argh!!!:mad:

My local paper is running full page YD advertisements, foetus and all, I think it's unethical tbh, would I be correct to complain or is it just my own bias kicking in?

wonderfulname wrote: »

My local paper is running full page YD advertisements, foetus and all, I think it's unethical tbh, would I be correct to complain or is it just my own bias kicking in?

It's probably a matter of "they've paid and the paper isn't directly endorsing it" so there's not much to be done but if I ran a newspaper I would like to hear about it if people found any of the ads being run distasteful or misleading.

I went to an anniversary mass for a family member last night in a parish that's part of Enda Kenny's constituency. There were posters everywhere. I didn't have a camera to hand but they were strange ones, with a foetus against a red background and a tear running down the foetus' cheek.

It was topped off by the priest saying in his sermon:
"Now, I don't want to get involved in any politics but I think it's a great pity that we have lost track of our faith, we need to ensure that the sanctity of all life is equally respected". (Paraphrased but not by much).

I thought it was so incredibly inappropriate that this priest would push a political agenda at a mass and insinuate that if you support this bill you are somehow betraying your faith, that you're not being a diligent enough catholic.

I was fuming. All I could think was "this guy who will never be faced with a preganancy of any kind, not to mind an unexpected one, is cool with me being raped and then being forced to carry my rapist's baby to term, or having to carry a foetus that will not survive to term".

So, someone seems to have edited some things..
http://www.youthdefence.ie/&#8206

Macha wrote: »

Sorry meant to write could win a referendum, whereas with the legislation, they have zero space.

I really don't think they could - they've already lost 2, and their support seems to consist of a few vocal people and foreign money.

This is disgusting behaviour. Ashamed to say he supposedly represents my area at home.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/the-air-froze-in-the-chamber-walsh-s-input-was-disgusting-1.1465774