Via The Abortion Rights Campaign
Tomorrow the Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) will hold a lunchtime rally at 1pm at the Four Courts, Dublin, in solidarity with a woman in Northern Ireland who is being prosecuted for obtaining abortion pills for her teenage daughter.
She is charged with obtaining “poison”, despite the fact that the abortion pills (Mifepristone and Misoprostol) would have been prescribed to her daughter on the NHS had she travelled to England or Wales. Like the case earlier this month when a young woman was prosecuted for procuring her own abortion, this case highlights the severe stigma surrounding abortion.
Midweek, lunchtime protests aren’t feasable for a pro-choice culchie like meself, but I wish you the best.
Sorry hijacking top comment to point out bottom link seems to be broken.
It also highlights that abortion, under those circumstances and in that jurisdiction, is illegal.
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Yeah, they’re meeting because of that. What point did you think you’re making?
Just that many people would prefer if the law was ignored in these cases, or that they weren’t reported.
Tink dey want d law changed hun x
It bean an unjust, arcake law anal x
Yes. Next?
Or they’d prefer that the law be changed. Jesus, like.
And ignored for the time being.
The absolute GALL of them.
I know for a fact I’d have been voluntarily celibate when it was illegal for me to get the ride, that’s for certain-sure. Unjust, ancient laws are there for a reason! Say it with me: regressive ideology and legislative cowardice.
Right with a view to changing it in the long run as they regard the law as immoral. How is this complicated for you?
@Moyest because he’s waiting for instruction from upon high, on how to think, how to act, etc. because you know, morality is a gift from God or some other nonsense instruction from a manual that may as well have been produced in Shenzhen province and translated by the guy who does the instructions for Electrolux food mixers.
But sure… what can ya do, when you’re up against that…
Or its just illegal Clampers.
Yes and they want the law changed. Are you seriously just telling us what the rally is about when everyone knows?
So is jaywalking
As it happens, the text above introducing the event says nothing about a law change. Just about solidarity and stigma.
Do you seriously need everything literally spelled out for you? An organisation called ABORTION RIGHTS CAMPAIGN is holding a rally to show solidarity with a woman who is being punished for HAVING AN ABORTION and you think people need to be told that they want the abortion law changed?
That’s not what the rally is for Moyest. It’s a person who procured abortificants for someone else who has been charged.
Yes, and they think the law this woman was prosecuted under is immoral. Is there anything else you need explainded for some baffling reason?
No. But you seem intent on responding to my comments as if I’d requested such clarification.
Which is ironic since you are the person who thought the rally was about a different person.
Well yes. You started by stating that they were asking for a laway to be removed. I pointed out that opposing the existence of abortion laws is the reason for thexample groups existence. I thought that was pretty straightforward and yet here you still are trying to say….”something”. Just bizarre.
@Moyest…. I hate to say this, but, you’d get more sense out of the instruction manual translator guy in Shenzhen province…
News just in….. The “law is an ass”
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Abortion it’s so hot right now.
Only if you do it wrong
3000 women a year travel to have abortions.
The problem is poor sex education and people who are clueless about contraception.
That and our own Health Service couldn’t possibly deal with all these terminations with every other problem it has right now.
Craggy Ireland 2016.
No
So our health system is even worse than we believe it to be because we are exporting a tonne of procedures…. and that’s reason to keep doing it? ya what now….
Yes i’m sure our health service would be overwhelmed by 8-12 abortions a day…
Why do these people hate babies so much?
Because of original sin? You know, if a young teenage girl is raped, she should be made carry the baby full term, and then the baby can carry out its’ sentence for original sin….. or something…… at a guess….
Yeah, what really is up with them? They don’t want kids raised by loving same sex couples and this as well. Religious folk are crazy.
Have you met a baby? God, they are so irritating and demanding.
LOL !
Why are they, like, obsessed with innards other than their own? Get your noses out of other peoples genitals, pets.
Because they grow up into judgemental, spiteful godbotherers who hate women having a say in their own health matters.
Wouldn’t it be mad if multinational business pulled out of northern Ireland because of this behavior, al a N Carolina…
Hmmm… instead of me arguing with nonsensical arguments put up by pro lifers I might just write to these multinationals and suggest Im sickened by the bed fellows they have made in NI, and the ‘culture’ up there is damaging their brand . I think Ill start with Google, Seagate & Fujitsu…
Because all transgender toilet policy is the same as abortion?? All these social issues are more or less the same, huh?
Well it’s the same wagons opposed them every time. That’s what they all have in common.
its all human rights …
Anyways , Ill start with Google and their new office in Belfast , lets see what they say …
Go for it.
your approval means a lot
“Because all transgender toilet policy is the same as abortion??”
Because religious based oppression is like religious based oppression.
Ain’t no operation like religious oppression
*drops the beat*
Even though these are civil laws.
*drops a bleat* :-)
So close Don, so close…..
Civil laws are the only laws religious people can use to force the rest of us into their little boxes newsjustin.
I promise never to oppose a religious law as long as it’s not applied to people outside that religion, kay?
Civil laws based on the Christian religion as you are often at pains to point out news…..
*drops the baby*
Ooops!
ah to be fair Moyest it’s not necessarily religion based, plenty of atheists are against abortion, just doesn’t sit right with them.
They tend just to not have one themselves though.
Let’s face it, they’re a tiny minority if they exist at all.
Also what well said.
some catholics are against abortion for themselves yet support the right to chose by others. c.hitchens, rip, didn’t agree with abortion on principle, but he didn’t think he had the right to make a decision for anyone by himself.
Topic receives ultra-religious stench when generally frustrated nutters, like YD, receive funds from equally nutty american bishops (which were at odds with vatican on many issues since 20s century). US bishops managed to radicalize previously less militant and more tolerant groups on both sides in Ireland. They think Ireland is their Jerusalem which must belong to them.
It’s grim up north….ain’t that true…