Monthly Archives: October 2012

RallyforChoice writes:

So Marie Stopes are opening in Belfast and will offer abortions to people from the whole of Ireland up to 9 weeks and within the legal framework (thought you might like to know).

 

Marie Stopes To Open Clinic In Northern Ireland (MarieStopes.org)

NI clinic to offer abortion services (Finola Meredith, irish Times)

Uploaded by 2birdswimming who sez:

Clip from Eddie Hobbs’ “30 things to do with your SSIA”, from 2006, where Eddie talks about gearing – instead of buying one property with your own money, borrow as much as you can from the banks to buy as many properties as you can, and failing that, invest in property via the stock market – punctured all the time, of course, with his dis iz nutttz clause. This guy is treated as a f**king financial expert in Ireland.


“I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it, and I sustain and support that law, and the right of a woman to make that choice, and my personal beliefs, like the personal beliefs of other people, should not be brought into a political campaign.”

Mitt Romney (debating Ted Kennedy), October 1994.

“I’m in favour of a pro-life policy. The legislation that relates to abortion which is something that is going to have to be approved by the Supreme Court and the key decisions I’ll take as the president will be number one, stopping funding for Planned Parenthood, re-instituting the Mexico City policy which says our funds can’t be used for abortion around the world and appointing justices to the Supreme Court that will follow the Constitution, hopefully reverse Roe v. Wade, and return to the states, the authority for making law with regards to abortion.”

Mitt Romney, February 2012.

 

Mitt Romney today said no abortion legislation is part of his agenda, but he would prohibit federally-funded international nonprofits from providing abortions in other countries.

“There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda,” the GOP presidential candidate told The Des Moines Register’s editorial board during a meeting today before his campaign rally at a Van Meter farm.

Romney’s ‘Softened’ Abortion Comments Put Campaign Back On Defensive (Guardian)

A Brief, Exhausting History Of Mitt Romney Fighting With Himself About Abortion (Gawker)

Never mind.

He’s still got his Health.

James Reilly outside An Bord Altranais (Irish Nursing Board) Conference at Chartered Accountants’ House, Pearse St, Dublin, this afternoon.

Health Officials Accused Of interfering With Public Accounts Committee’s Work (RTE)

Reilly Defends Senior Health Officials (Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

Meanwhile, from the man from the Jack & Jill Foundation:.

Element Pictures has been offered €1m from the BAI Sound and Vision Scheme to make a three-part RTÉ drama about former Taoiseach Charles J Haughey
‘Citizen Charlie’, a 3 x 90-minute historical drama has been offered 27 per cent of its €3.7m budget with the offer of €1m constituting the largest made in this round of funding.
‘Citizen Charlie’ is described as “a trilogy of 90-minute dramas charting the emergence of modern Ireland through the mesmeric figure of Charles J Haughey and his pursuit of power, wealth and glamour.”

 

But who should play him?

Charlie Haughey TV Drama Offered €1m in BAI Funding (IFTN.ie)

Portrait by John Kelly, currently hanging in Leinster House.