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Prolife Campaign on Protection of Life in Pregnancy Bill Superthread

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  • Registered Users Posts: 22,306 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Jester252 wrote: »
    Do you have anything to add because nobody like a grammer nazi.

    There was no grammAr comment implied.

    There was humorous opportunity in the typo though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    So women should literally just have unwanted child after unwanted child to prevent the imminent collapse of Western Civilization?


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Eramen wrote: »
    The situation is more serious than you may think, even in the West.

    The abortion rate per 1,000 women in Russia is 53. This equates to 13 abortions for every 10 live births.

    In the USA it's 20, UK 18, Australia 19.. Do the math! In fact the math is already done for you elsewhere, it's a simple internet search..

    We are presently suffering a population hemorrhage by killing off our potential youth off en masse. There's no argument about it. It's leading us to a demographic catastrophe which is already very well recognised in the West.

    There is absolutely no basis for saying that abortion on demand does not significantly harm the population when in fact it does - to a very large degree.

    This comes at a time when we won't even be able to afford our own healthcare, infrastructure, retirements, and to keep to wheels turning in the economy. We will become stagnant culturally and as a economic entity.

    I'm not hear to listen to excuse after excuse when the information is in plain sight. The pro-choice mentality is disastrous for the continuance of progress and is an obstacle to the advancement of the state and people as a whole, especially in Europe.

    How many children have you had to help avoid population decline?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    Reekwind wrote: »
    And who here is suggesting that the campaigners in question don't have the right to campaign or produce a petition? That's a strawman. All the OP is doing is expressing unease at the low tactics being used by the anti-abortion campaigners

    How is it low? Are teenagers not allowed a voice?


  • Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Laneyh


    Lola18 wrote: »
    "I don't understand how you think anyone can unsee an enormous billboard ad though - that's a bit daft."

    Would love to know when I said this? I said they can choose to ignore what it says

    Indeed, I apologise for misinterpreting your words.

    Unfortunately, saying that people should read it and choose to think about it or ignore it is equally daft.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,998 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Jester252 wrote: »
    Do you have anything to add because nobody like a grammer nazi.
    Why are you complaining? You may have just invented a new word. Register the domain name before the cybersquatters jump on it. :cool:

    I saw one of those posters today that said something like "the law will allow abortion until birth". Which is, as far as I know, a blatant lie. So it appears that the target audience for the ads is the Ignorant, and it's only a matter of time before Godwin's Law comes up.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Jester252 wrote: »
    How is it low? Are teenagers not allowed a voice?

    They don't have a vote for exactly this reason. They're in general more easily influenced by various interest groups. In terms of a prospective referendum, they don't have a voice.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    lazygal wrote: »
    How many children have you had to help avoid population decline?

    and why is the global population increasing?

    In England and Wales now has a population of 56.1 million people, an increase of 3.7 million since 2001.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18854073

    England and Wales have abortion - yet their population is increasing.... hmmmmm....


  • Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Laneyh


    What is amazing to me is that these posters etc. go completely unchallenged - apart from the disgust expressed by people online or in letters to newspapers etc.

    This exhibition http://www.worldirish.com/story/505-murder-of-our-souls-street-art-extallation-temple-bar- in Temple Bar has been removed a number of times.

    Last year all of it was removed and painted over just before the Notre Dame vs Navy game so it looked to me like someone official removed it as opposed to an individual who objected to the content.

    This ad is mobile so not on Govt property but what about all of the posters on lamp posts in town. Do the council own those lamp posts ? Is it legal for YD to have their posters on there when it is not linked to a referendum or election ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Eramen


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    and why is the global population increasing?

    In England and Wales now has a population of 56.1 million people, an increase of 3.7 million since 2001.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18854073

    England and Wales have abortion - yet their population is increasing.... hmmmmm....


    Nice decoy. Yet it's only in Britain, Ireland and France I believe. The rest of Europe is in terminal decline.

    Muslim people and Asian immigrants are quite content to have large families. Nearly half of all births in France are to people of North African or Mid-Eastern origin.

    Europeans seem to have no hope for the future and just make pathetic excuses for why their civilisation is dysfunctional.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭Reekwind


    Jester252 wrote: »
    How is it low? Are teenagers not allowed a voice?
    In terms of a referendum, no. They are not allowed voice at the ballot box. And padding out a petition with the names of those who cannot vote and who are not expected to vote is poor form

    Unless of course you'd expect a twelve year old to have independently formulated a coherent and reasoned opinion on abortion?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    If they think this is ok, i wouldnt put anything else past them.

    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/06/27/opposite-the-dublin-rape-crisis-centre/?fb_source=pubv1


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,306 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Andy-Pandy wrote: »
    If they think this is ok, i wouldnt put anything else past them.

    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/06/27/opposite-the-dublin-rape-crisis-centre/?fb_source=pubv1

    It demonstrates a shocking lack of actual argument....


  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭jimmy5694


    Jester252 wrote: »
    How is it low? Are teenagers not allowed a voice?


    of course there allowed to voice, but its being abused from the point of view that there being talked to sign something that they dont know the whole truth


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    I wish the title if this thread, and their movement, be changed to what it is.

    It's not pro-life or anti-life.
    It's pro choice or anti choice.


  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭jimmy5694


    They don't have a vote for exactly this reason. They're in general more easily influenced by various interest groups. In terms of a prospective referendum, they don't have a voice.


    agreed


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Mod:

    Threads about the Abortion Bill merged.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Eramen wrote: »
    Nice decoy. Yet it's only in Britain, Ireland and France I believe. The rest of Europe is in terminal decline.

    Muslim people and Asian immigrants are quite content to have large families. Nearly half of all births in France are to people of North African or Mid-Eastern origin.

    Europeans seem to have no hope for the future and just make pathetic excuses for why their civilisation is dysfunctional.

    You're very concerned about population decline and demographic changes. Maybe you might be able to tell us how many children you've had to play your part in making sure its effects are offset?


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    After reading through this page, nothing the youth defence does shocks me now.

    Absolutely disgusting organisation. I have no problem with people being pro life, they're entitled to their opinion but the amount of sheer vitriol their supporters spout is disgusting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Lola18


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Well I don't think you believe that to be honest. If you had any respect for human life you would have a major problem with a sign like this being placed outside a centre for victims of rape.

    Oh I fully believe it and I have a lot of respect for human life which is why I don't have a problem. People are making a mountain out of a molehill here!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Eramen wrote: »
    At the time of the fall of the Soviet Union 86% of women over the age of fifteen had had at least one abortion.

    The average 25-year-old woman had had three abortions and some women had had more than twenty
    .


    China has more than 13 million abortions per year.




    Quite substantial. This is having profound effects on the population demographics of our countries, and certainly on-demand abortion conflicts with the state interests considering where we are at demographically today in the West. We are aged and childless, or worse, killing off our future.

    It's only a matter of time before people and governments stem the flow of this type of abortion - out of pure necessity for societies common interest & progress.


    "'They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women.They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state."

    -George Carlin


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    They don't have a vote for exactly this reason. They're in general more easily influenced by various interest groups. In terms of a prospective referendum, they don't have a voice.

    So they should not be involved in a ruling that will effect them? Is there any pro life groups that are campaign?


  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭jimmy5694


    Eramen wrote: »
    The situation is more serious than you may think, even in the West.

    The abortion rate per 1,000 women in Russia is 53. This equates to 13 abortions for every 10 live births.

    In the USA it's 20, UK 18, Australia 19.. Do the math! In fact the math is already done for you elsewhere, it's a simple internet search..

    We are presently suffering a population hemorrhage by killing off our potential youth off en masse. There's no argument about it. It's leading us to a demographic catastrophe which is already very well recognised in the West. There is absolutely no basis for saying that abortion on demand does not significantly harm the population when in fact it does - to a very large degree.

    This comes at a time when we won't even be able to afford our own healthcare, infrastructure, retirements, and to keep to wheels turning in the economy. We will become stagnant culturally and as a economic entity.

    I'm not hear to listen to excuse after excuse when the information is in plain sight. The pro-choice mentality is disastrous for the continuance of progress and is an obstacle to the advancement of the state and people as a whole, especially in Europe. It's inevitable that abortion as we know it, freely available and commoditised in many parts of the world, will slowly evaporate as an option out of the need to secure our state's well-being and the national interest.

    i only agree to abortion on the terms that it is there and used when neccessary and not to be abused eg freely available.


  • Registered Users Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Eramen


    "'They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women.They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state."

    -George Carlin


    Quotes from other famous feminists:



    “In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent.”

    — Catherine MacKinnon


    “To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he’s a machine, a walking dildo.” – Valerie Solanas


    “The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.” — Sally Miller Gearhart


    "I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.” – Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor


    “The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.” — Sharon Stone


    “All men are rapists and that’s all they are” — Marilyn French


    Comedy Gold.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Jester252 wrote: »
    So they should not be involved in a ruling that will effect them? Is there any pro life groups that are campaign?

    Are you arguing that 12 year olds should be allowed vote? If they're not allowed vote, their signature on a "Don't Kill Babies" list shouldn't be held in any standing.

    If teenagers want to actively play a role in the discussion (and I'm sure many do), I'd be completely in support of it. That's not what this is though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭Reekwind


    Eramen wrote: »
    Nice decoy. Yet it's only in Britain, Ireland and France I believe. The rest of Europe is in terminal decline
    Um, no it's not. There are a dozen European countries (out of 50) with decreasing populations. Most of which are Eastern European nations haemorrhaging people due to mass emigration, not declining fertility. Everyone else is stable or growing

    The idea that abortion (which has been legal in most of these countries for decades now) has led to us "suffering a population hemorrhage by killing off our potential youth off en masse" is hysterical nonsense
    Muslim people and Asian immigrants are quite content to have large families. Nearly half of all births in France are to people of North African or Mid-Eastern origin
    What's the problem with that? Don't those babies count towards easing the demographic burden? Or is your problem less the number of babies being born than the colour of said babies?


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,306 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Jester252 wrote: »
    So they should not be involved in a ruling that will effect them? Is there any pro life groups that are campaign?

    Why should a change to law affect them in this regard? There's a simple solution already available for those who strongly disagree with abortion. And that's to not have one. An available procedure is not a compulsory one.

    Why not allow 5 year olds to sign? 2 year olds? Same reason we don't let kids vote in local elections. Because to do so would be silly. Even if local issues effect them. Grown up decisions are for grown ups.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Lola18


    Laneyh wrote: »
    Indeed, I apologise for misinterpreting your words.

    Unfortunately, saying that people should read it and choose to think about it or ignore it is equally daft.


    How exactly is it daft?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Eramen wrote: »
    Quotes from other famous feminists:



    “In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent.”

    — Catherine MacKinnon


    “To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he’s a machine, a walking dildo.” – Valerie Solanas


    “The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.” — Sally Miller Gearhart


    "I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.” – Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor


    “The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.” — Sharon Stone


    “All men are rapists and that’s all they are” — Marilyn French


    Comedy Gold.


    Care to address the point and tell me why its ok to hold women to being broodmares for the state?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    Eramen wrote: »
    We are presently suffering a population hemorrhage by killing off our potential youth off en masse. There's no argument about it. It's leading us to a demographic catastrophe which is already very well recognised in the West. There is absolutely no basis for saying that abortion on demand does not significantly harm the population when in fact it does - to a very large degree.

    Who says? Show me the research and if it's not bollix, I'll take it seriously.
    I'm not hear to listen to excuse after excuse when the information is in plain sight. The pro-choice mentality is disastrous for the continuance of progress and is an obstacle to the advancement of the state and people as a whole, especially in Europe. It's inevitable that abortion as we know it, freely available and commoditised in many parts of the world, will slowly evaporate as an option out of the need to secure our state's well-being and the national interest.

    What sort of sh*te is that? I remember you. You showed your hand on a different thread about your distaste for Muslims and their progeny.
    Eramen wrote: »
    Quotes from other famous feminists:

    “In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent.”

    — Catherine MacKinnon


    “To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he’s a machine, a walking dildo.” – Valerie Solanas


    “The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.” — Sally Miller Gearhart


    "I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.” – Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor


    “The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.” — Sharon Stone


    “All men are rapists and that’s all they are” — Marilyn French


    Comedy Gold.

    You do listen to some rubbish, don't you? I'm an out and out feminist, and I love and respect men. There is not one word of those quotes that I can agree with. Get with the times bro.


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