This afternoon.
Merrion Street, Dublin 2
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan with Dublin City Councillor Claire Byrne and Green Party Oireachtas members launching the party’s campaign in favour of a Yes vote in the upcoming referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment.
Earlier: Priorities
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Meanwhile…
This afternoon.
Merrion Street, Dublin 2.
Anne Marie McNally, Social Democrats Political Director and General Election candidate for Dublin Mid-West (and ‘sheet columnist) unveils the Soc Dems’ poster contribution to a Yes vote in the forthcoming referendum. Chivalrous ‘sheet head Aaron McAllorum momentarily holds the ladder.
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it is quite clearly the belief among politicians that its politically advantageous to cheer lead for abortion.
Women have the vote now. We can vote in secret whichever way we want and not just how our husband tells us to.
That must terrify you.
I thought we proudly celebrated women have had the vote for 100 years in Feb? …oh wait, that doesn’t help your childish narrative.
And Baz is right, politicians are hanging onto this for political gain.
“Yes for dignity” – i.e. ease of access..
“Yes for compassion” – compassion for whom..
“Yes for health” – addressed in The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 ..
That you even have to ask who the compassion is for speaks volumes for your humanity. Compassion for the women who find themselves in the horrible position of needing an abortion.
The PLDPA is just the latest fudge to legislate around the 8th. The 8th is a bad law. It does not prevent abortions, it just causes harm and every few years the harm hits the headlines and we try to legislate again. It has to go.
That’s kind of like saying that laws against drugs don’t stop people taking drugs. The law is not only designed to protect but it is supposed to reflect the views of the nation and the type of values it aspires to. Also it’s not dispassionate to ask who the compassion is for because it is clearly never in favour of the foetus/baby when an abortion is carried out!
Politicians will always have one eye on the polls, there’s no denying that.
I don’t think it’s overly naive, however, to think that sometimes – like this time – their projections tie in with what is also simply the right thing to do.
Explains why FF and FG are not campaigning. Those splinters in their arse for fence sitting must have splinters.
We need more posters like these! The women who are affected front and centre. For those whose baby has a fatal fetal abnormality, for those who are pregnant and find out they have cancer, for those who are raped, for those with depression and mental health issues who cannot take their medication while pregnant. For the poor and marginalized in society who do not have the choice to travel. These women matter.
Well said Anne.
Regarding the examples you made on FFA’s, name 3? With regards to rape, quantify that as an overall percentage of abortions in UK? Cancer? Not true. In fact evidence is that chemo does not effect a baby in the womb. Plus access wing care in those circumstances that my effect the baby are not grounds to withhold it. Depression? Same answer.
“chemo does not affect a baby in the womb..”
You clearly haven’t a clue what you’re talking about..
By the way rape and FFA’s make up two percent of UK abortions. Catering for 2% when 38% are 2nd and 3rd and 4th time abortions is not clever. Excuse the pun but you’d be throwing the baby out with the bath water!
Typical pro life lies..
What exactly is s lie?
We don’t need more posters like these. I really resent the implication that you should care about the women you’re related to but women as a wider group? Who cares about them?
But the reality is that we all care about people we know over people we don’t know.
And we care for our kin (and friends) more than strangers.
I think the point is to get people to realize that this is something that could and does affect those closest to them in an effort to get those undecided to vote repeal. There is so much misinformation out there. For example this weekend my mother in law looked horrified when I said it could affect me – as in why would I ever have an abortion and she thought I wanted children. When I explained several ways I could end up needing an abortion even though I very much want children it really opened her eyes to the bigger picture of repeal and why it matters so much to all women. So I think they are a good idea and better than just posters saying vote yes but not relating it to people’s day to day lives.
Perhaps it addresses those who believe women they know would never need an abortion because abortions are just for those feckless sluts who are too lazy to use contraception or just want them so they can look good on the beach? You know, idiots.
I can completely understand your resentment though. I remember being quite irritated by all the “as a father of girls” garbage that people were espousing when #MeToo was all the rage. It was suggesting that men can only understand problems facing women if they have first hand knowledge of an actual woman which is clearly nonsense.
Yes. And not understand alone, but care. I mean, what a terrible thing to say about men, that they don’t care about, or attempt to understand, the lives of women unless they care about them personally. And what’s thing to think about women’s lives, that they only have value if they’re loved.
Abortions may be needed most urgently by the loneliest, most isolated, most difficult to empathize with in our society. The people who have addictions, mental illness, homeless people, those in social care settings. People who might be able to continue with a pregnancy except nobody does really care about them.
A beautiful sexy woman in heels. Clever.