55 thoughts on “Not In Their Name”

    • I agree. This is a much better form of protest than the slightly tasteless one a few weeks ago. The pro-abortion face-painting and party balloons gave me the creeps.

      • Pro-choice, not pro-abortion. Celebrating freedom of choice (if we were to have it) is the opposite of creepy.

        • Depends what you’re choosing. Pepsi or Coca cola? Sure, paint faces and blow up the balloons. But I think you’ll agree that this is a somewhat more delicate matter, and as such I feel creeped out by that approach.

  5. I was at the rally. A strong message delivered combined with a somber and respectful atmosphere.

      • When somebody uses ‘lefty’ as an insult, its a sure sign they aren’t to be taken seriously. It’s like when somebody uses ‘feminist’ as an insult.

        Equality? Ah sure we’ve no need for that, wha?

      • Funny how you call foul when people dare to insult you, yet you seem to think it’s ok to do the same. Funny how someone banging the Catholic drum seems to be ignoring the whole “turn the other cheek” concept.

        But sure anyone that ludicrously snide about a peaceful, dignified protest isn’t to be taken seriously anyway.

      • ABM, it must be time for a novena! So, you want to save unviable foetuses, so some can be abused by your priests? You need to wake up or see your god as soon as possible (this is not a threat of violence, it would be a prayer but there is no god, not even a non-christian one).

  6. Of course your average BS reader knows better than a professor of medicine who so happens to adhere to Catholic moral teaching.

    • So which comes first, religious beliefs or medical knowledge? Religion should not influence medical procedures. F*ucking dark ages bs. How can Ireland move on when you still have people running around believing in the bible? There isn’t a single person in the county who lives according to the bible. They act as if they do. It’s pick n’ mix religion at its best.

      • tbf, big difference between believing in the bible and allowing that belief to warp your world view or deliberatly cause harm,
        Not defending scum who write things like “never a need for abortion” due to their outdated world view btw

    • Can I just point out that you are actually referring to the moral teachings of the Roman Catholic Church which is based in the Vatican city in Rome.
      The word catholic means universal or relating to all men.
      Your so-called morals are not mine. They are your church’s.

    • An adherence to which puts womens’ lives at risk. So instead of one life snuffed out, we got two! More souls for God, yay!

      ‘obstructionist’ doesn’t even begint o describe how ‘Catholic moral teaching’ essentially puts two lives in jeopardy, when there’s is no justification for doing so.

      But hiding behind religion is moral cowardice of the highest order: you disagree with the concept so you’d rather people suffer than take a necessary, if ugly, step to save lives.

  7. “Just F**king Legislate Already”. O holy Jesus, cringeworthy grammar, like. Like, omg, she saw this on like, Oprah, and like, wtf, thought it would be like, cool, or like, whatever.

    My bad?

    • it’s a catchy phrase on a placard so normal grammar rules do not apply, any more than they would in an advertising slogan. That placard is a small twist on a common phrase already in the culture (for better or worse) and is very effective in this context – that is ALL that matters.

    • It’s colloquial. It’s all very well to be a Grammar Nazi, but if you can’t recognise colloquial usage you should probably hang up your jackboots.

  10. Nothing will change. The Dail doesn’t have the courage to step up. Too conservative. And sure as we have no leaders in Ireland.

    • If it was clear that enough people would vote on this issue, such as having a ‘legalise medical termination’ party, perhaps they would take notice.

      I know the devil is in the detail but it might be worth a try. If we had a real senate, elected by the people, like the one in Australia, then that would give such a party a chance.

  11. It was an eerily quiet protest when I past by. I would’ve hought a couple of thousand rather than a few hundred mentioned by the irish Times. It was really difficult to get up Kildare Street at all.

      • + 1 It’s really annoying and I don’t know why IT do that. There was more than a couple of hundred, and they kept saying last night that the main protest is on Saturday.

  14. Pity I’m in my 3rd trimester, and was too wrecked last night to join this. I love a good rally, especially one with such an important goal.

    RIP Savita, the government better not let your death have been in vain.