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Late Late Show April 27th

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Try_harder wrote: »
    Yes but using pejorative terms like virtue signallers are very respectful

    That's what they are. Trying to force their opinion on people. If the point was politely disagreed then fair enough but instead it's the usual 'how dare you?!' nonsense


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭DickSwiveller


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    You’ve missed the point entirely. That is just one aspect in a very long list of sacrifices a woman must make.

    The common good would be to leave it up to the individual, because common good is subjective.

    I think it’s cruel and babaric to force an unwanted pregnancy and subsequent baby on an unwilling woman. I don’t think it’s in the best interests of either mother or baby.

    I know you disagree - that’s fine - but by voting No, you are ensuring everyone must live their lives arrested by your morals and opinions.

    A Yes vote ensures you can continue to live your life with those morals in mind, nothing to will change for you.
    But others, who disagree with you, will be able to get the healthcare they need.

    All I’m seeing you post about is about is the baby. You’re staring so hard at the uterus you can’t see the woman attached to it.

    As a born living citizen, her needs, wants and wishes should take priority over the contents of her womb, unless she chooses otherwise.

    Oh for God sake they're not going to war, and pregnancy is not a disease. Can we please tone down the hysteria.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    Oh for God sake they're not going to war, and pregnancy is not a disease. Can we please tone down the hysteria.

    Please point out where I said it’s like going to war, or a disease. I said neither.
    Pregnancy isn’t a walk in the park. It is difficult and painful for even wanted pregnancies. This is a fact. It is a huge sacrifice.
    And asking someone to stay pregnant and have a baby they do not want just so you*, a stranger on the Internet, can proudly declare that Ireland is an abortion free country (even though it isn’t) is the height of selfishness.

    *figuriative you, not you specifically.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,196 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    the figure of 1 in 5 (or more accurately 21%) is got by taking the number of abortions as a percentace of the number of 'abortions plus live births', miscarriages / still births don't enter the equation at all. (and I don't mean to be flippant, or disregard anyones experiences here, but thats where the figure comes from)

    there is one abortion for every four live births in the UK.

    As I said this contradicts the spokesperson for the no side when they were asked to justify the figure. As even the no side cant agrees on the figures, I stand by my statement that the figure used on the posters is deliberately misleading.

    Additionally, no one knows how many miscarriages are unrecorded, so in reality that would impact on the true figures if we could find them.

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭DickSwiveller


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    Please point out where I said it’s like going to war, or a disease. I said neither.
    Pregnancy isn’t a walk in the park. It is difficult and painful for even wanted pregnancies. This is a fact. It is a huge sacrifice.
    And asking someone to stay pregnant and have a baby they do not want just so you*, a stranger on the Internet, can proudly declare that Ireland is an abortion free country (even though it isn’t) is the height of selfishness.

    *figuriative you, not you specifically.

    Outlawing murder and convicting people who kill other people because you think it's wrong is the height of selfishness.

    See how easy this game is?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭joe40


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    You’ve missed the point entirely. That is just one aspect in a very long list of sacrifices a woman must make.

    The common good would be to leave it up to the individual, because common good is subjective.

    I think it’s cruel and babaric to force an unwanted pregnancy and subsequent baby on an unwilling woman. I don’t think it’s in the best interests of either mother or baby.

    I know you disagree - that’s fine - but by voting No, you are ensuring everyone must live their lives arrested by your morals and opinions.

    A Yes vote ensures you can continue to live your life with those morals in mind, nothing to will change for you.
    But others, who disagree with you, will be able to get the healthcare they need.

    All I’m seeing you post about is about is the baby. You’re staring so hard at the uterus you can’t see the woman attached to it.

    As a born living citizen, her needs, wants and wishes should take priority over the contents of her womb, unless she chooses otherwise.

    Oh for God sake they're not going to war, and pregnancy is not a disease. Can we please tone down the hysteria.
    Pregnancy is a life changing event, with lifelong implications. You have the audacity to accuse someone of "hysteria" for pointing this out. Just another "hysterical woman" not making any sense.
    I would not be forced to give a "blood donation" to save a life, but a woman is forced to go through with a pregnancy, regardless of the effects on her.
    The blood donor analogy is actually quite apt since that is basically what a pregnant woman is, provides blood via placenta.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,856 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Give it a rest. There's an abortion thread on boards.

    I was specifically talking about the show last night, tough luck if the debate didn't go your way.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭DickSwiveller


    I was specifically talking about the show last night, tough luck if the debate didn't go your way.

    Yes, I haven't been able to sleep since.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    Outlawing murder and convicting people who kill other people because you think it's wrong is the height of selfishness.

    See how easy this game is?

    Fetuses aren’t people. And abortion isn’t murder. If it’s murder why do we have it written into our constitution that we permit women to travel to ‘murder’ these Irish citizens?
    Oh wait. Because it isn’t murder.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Is this the most posts ever in a LLS thread?

    You must be joking, back in the day it would regularly pass 700

    There were a few non-toy show threads that got over 1000


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭ouxbbkqtswdfaw


    At the end of the day, you can't get away from the fact that abortion is the killing of a living thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,856 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Every time you eat, you are killing a living thing.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Every time you eat, you are killing a living thing.
    ah here, lock it up mods


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    Fetuses aren’t people. And abortion isn’t murder. If it’s murder why do we have it written into our constitution that we permit women to travel to ‘murder’ these Irish citizens?
    Oh wait. Because it isn’t murder.

    Susie you can't even spell 'foetus' let alone define what one is.

    It's a matter of opinion whether they are people or not.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    I was specifically talking about the show last night, tough luck if the debate didn't go your way.

    It's a desperate situation when you have to steal the Avonmore milk logo..

    avonmore-logo.png

    :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    Every time you eat, you are killing a living thing.

    You've too much time on your hands... come on, back to the Atheism and Agnostic forum with you. Your usual haunt :D Chat show fora are a bit light for such a deep thinker:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    Skid X wrote: »
    You must be joking, back in the day it would regularly pass 700

    There were a few non-toy show threads that got over 1000

    Atlantic, Skid, Donie, Welshmegaman, Donkeykong, Robert etc..i hope we can all move on from this and have our light hearted posts on chat shows in future despite our differing and strongly felt views on the 8th:) It would be a shame otherwise.

    I don't think any of us want to be defined by this one issue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    Susie you can't even spell 'foetus' let alone define what one is.

    It's a matter of opinion whether they are people or not.

    Both are accepted spellings of the word, my phone autocorrects to fetus so I use that one. However if you have to resort to poking fun at alleged spelling mistakes, you mustn’t have any valid points to make.

    I accept that it’s a matter of opinion whether they are people or not.
    I don’t believe a fetus is equal to a living person, so I shouldn’t have to live my life restricted by your beliefs, just because you equate it’s worth to that of a living adult.
    That is literally the whole point of being pro-choice yet you keep missing it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    Every time you eat, you are killing a living thing.

    When you scratch your arm i'm sure you kill a few living cells. That doesn't equate those cells to human embryos. Or the lettuce you may have eaten today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    Both are accepted spellings of the word, my phone autocorrects to fetus so I use that one. However if you have to resort to poking fun at alleged spelling mistakes, you mustn’t have any valid points to make.

    I accept that it’s a matter of opinion whether they are people or not.
    I don’t believe a fetus is equal to a living person, so I shouldn’t have to live my life restricted by your beliefs, just because you equate it’s worth to that of a living adult.
    That is literally the whole point of being pro-choice yet you keep missing it.

    Fair enough, apologies, i see it can be spealt that way.

    Well i don't think your views on a foetus should result in protection being removed for the unborn.

    No you don't get the point and never will i think. You want every individual to have a choice to kill an unborn. Can you not see how many feel society and government should have a role in protecting the unborn which overrides individual feeling?

    None of us have the right to do whatever we want. To many it's free choice to kill. Society has to protect it's most vulnerable.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    Of the 8.75 million abortions in the UK since 1969 how many Bobby Charltons, Richard Ashcrofts, Paloma Faiths etc were killed? Maybe a few footballers under the granny rule and we'd be going to Russia!! I know some will say we may have been saved a few mass murderers too.But i like to look on humanity as 95% decent people. So i look on those abortions and say what a waste.

    I know a great many were the result of desperate personal situations.But i like to think life first.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    Fair enough, apologies, i see it can be spealt that way.

    Well i don't think your views on a foetus should result in protection being removed for the unborn.

    No you don't get the point and never will i think. You want every individual to have a choice to kill an unborn. Can you not see how many feel society and government should have a role in protecting the unborn which overrides individual feeling?

    None of us have the right to do whatever we want. To many it's free choice to kill. Society has to protect it's most vulnerable.

    Well if that’s how you feel I presume you are campaigning to repeal the 13th and 14th amendments which specifically give women the constitutional right to travel to procure an abortion.
    If you genuinely believe it to be killing persons than you would be doing this, otherwise you are just a hypocrite who is happy to export the problem.
    Not in my backyard type thinking.

    Society has to protect its most vulenerable... the unborn are not members of society.
    The women carrying them, are though.
    And it’s these vulnerable living citizens that we are putting in dangerous, distressing situations by exporting their healthcare, just so that we can pretend there is no abortion in Ireland.

    There is abortion in Ireland anyway. It’s happening despite the 8th.
    What were being asked is whether we want to regulate it, making it safer and less riskier for our women, or if we’re happy to keep dropping them at the departure gates to export the problem, putting our women in dangerous situations.

    And regardless of all that, the 8th effects maternity care for absolutely every woman, for every wanted pregnancy.
    It isn’t just about abortion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    Well if that’s how you feel I presume you are campaigning to repeal the 13th and 14th amendments which specifically give women the constitutional right to travel to procure an abortion.
    If you genuinely believe it to be killing persons than you would be doing this, otherwise you are just a hypocrite who is happy to export the problem.
    Not in my backyard type thinking.

    Society has to protect its most vulenerable... the unborn are not members of society.
    The women carrying them, are though.
    And it’s these vulnerable living citizens that we are putting in dangerous, distressing situations by exporting their healthcare, just so that we can pretend there is no abortion in Ireland.

    There is abortion in Ireland anyway. It’s happening despite the 8th.
    What were being asked is whether we want to regulate it, making it safer and less riskier for our women, or if we’re happy to keep dropping them at the departure gates to export the problem, putting our women in dangerous situations.

    And regardless of all that, the 8th effects maternity care for absolutely every woman, for every wanted pregnancy.
    It isn’t just about abortion.

    Susie you can't stop people from travelling. And that viewpoint doesn't make one a hypocrite.

    Also i fear, as do others, that easy access to abortion will result in a lot more of them. Hence, for what i believe to be the greater good i'll be voting No.

    Apologies again about the spelling, petty of me. You have argued your position fairly and i respect that. I've never been effected by the issue of abortion in my family. Maybe my position on the issue would change if i was. But where i am, and where you are is borne out of sincerity.

    The major difference between both sides is usually one doesn't view the foetus as a human being and the other does.

    I think we'll have to agree to differ and accept the democratic will of the people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    Susie you can't stop people from travelling. And that viewpoint doesn't make one a hypocrite.

    Also i fear, as do others, that easy access to abortion will result in a lot more of them. Hence, for what i believe to be the greater good i'll be voting No.

    Apologies again about the spelling, petty of me. You have argued your position fairly and i respect that. I've never been effected by the issue of abortion in my family. Maybe my position on the issue would change if i was. But where i am, and where you are is borne out of sincerity.

    The major difference between both sides is usually one doesn't view the foetus as a human being and the other does.

    We can, we did it before we voted the 13th and 14th amendments into the constitution.

    Those referendums happened after we stopped a pregnant 14 year old who had been raped by a male relative at the airport with her parents on her way to the UK for an abortion.
    We stopped her because she was traveling to end her pregnancy.

    And there was such a national outcry at how disgustingly we treated that young girl, that we held a referendum and put it in our constitution that women had the right to travel for abortions.

    If we truly believed it to be killing we would be repealing those amendments. We would be testing every child bearing woman upon leaving and entering the country.
    Because if we truly believed that these women were traveling to cruelly murder an actual baby, a citizen of this country, nothing would be too much trouble to enforce the law.

    Except we don’t.
    Because people don’t care so long as it isn’t happening here.
    Out of sight and out of mind. Not in my backyard.
    We’re a nation of hypocrites.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,545 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    NAGDEFI wrote:
    The major difference between both sides is usually one doesn't view the foetus as a human being and the other does.
    One side thinks a woman should give birth at all costs. Whether the child is wanted or not. Healthy or dead. Whether the woman will suffer or not.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    We can, we did it before we voted the 13th and 14th amendments into the constitution.

    Those referendums happened after we stopped a pregnant 14 year old who had been raped by a male relative at the airport with her parents on her way to the UK for an abortion.
    We stopped her because she was traveling to end her pregnancy.

    And there was such a national outcry at how disgustingly we treated that young girl, that we held a referendum and put it in our constitution that women had the right to travel for abortions.

    If we truly believed it to be killing we would be repealing those amendments. We would be testing every child bearing woman upon leaving and entering the country.
    Because if we truly believed that these women were traveling to cruelly murder an actual baby, a citizen of this country, nothing would be too much trouble to enforce the law.

    Except we don’t.
    Because people don’t care so long as it isn’t happening here.
    Out of sight and out of mind. Not in my backyard.
    We’re a nation of hypocrites.

    The 1992 X case attitude would never be tolerated now. The right to travel was well established by the courts. Well i do care. I'd hope a lot of those young women received proper counselling and care and not be presented with an abortion first option.

    Is it unseemly that Irish women go to the UK for abortion, absolutely. Why do i not want these facilities at home. I'm scared the rates of abortion will rise rapidly. So the situation we have, while far from ideal, is the lesser of 2 evils i feel.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭DickSwiveller


    One side thinks a woman should give birth at all costs. Whether the child is wanted or not. Healthy or dead. Whether the woman will suffer or not.

    That's just pure nonsense. You need to get out of your echo chamber and engage with pro-life people.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    One side thinks a woman should give birth at all costs. Whether the child is wanted or not. Healthy or dead. Whether the woman will suffer or not.

    No.

    Not at all costs, the woman's health comes first. Savita was ONE case that went horribly wrong. There are huge mistakes in all areas of health. That poor Phelan lady, 43, misdiagnosed and now has terminal cancer. All the Hepatitis scandals. That's a gross over simplification to say a side wants a woman to give birth at all costs.

    Same as saying all Yes voters agree with abortion on demand. Equally untrue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    The 1992 X case attitude would never be tolerated now. The right to travel was well established by the courts. Well i do care. I'd hope a lot of those young women received proper counselling and care and not be presented with an abortion first option.

    Is it unseemly that Irish women go to the UK for abortion, absolutely. Why do i not want these facilities at home. I'm scared the rates of abortion will rise rapidly. So the situation we have, while far from ideal, is the lesser of 2 evils i feel.

    Your version of the lesser of two evils will undoubtedly cause suffering and distress to women in vulnerable situations.

    I don’t think the health and well-being of women should be a sacrifice or considered colleteral damage just so we can say we’re an abortion free country.

    We aren’t. We never were. We never will be. As long as women are conceiving there will be women who will seek to end it, for their own reasons.
    This has literally been happening since the dawn of time.
    We’ve just moved on from coat hangers and scalding baths to Ryanair departure gates.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    No.

    Not at all costs, the woman's health comes first. Savita was ONE case that went horribly wrong. There are huge mistakes in all areas of health. That poor Phelan lady, 43, misdiagnosed and now has terminal cancer. All the Hepatitis scandals. That's a gross over simplification to say a side wants a woman to give birth at all costs.

    Same as saying all Yes voters agree with abortion on demand. Equally untrue.

    There was also Malek Thawley, Sheila Hodgers, Michelle Harte, Ann Lovett, the woman kept on life support to gestate a pregnancy even though she was brain dead against the wishes of her husband.....

    Even one woman is too many.
    If women were allowed to make their own choices they might never have died.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    The martyred women narrative is becoming tiresome at present. One poster replied to taking a baby to term with a list of every know complication and condition that could arise. It's getting like the hashtag movements at the moment that don't accept the rule of law as in the Belfast case.

    Are people going to seriously argue that abortions won't take place that are 'lifestyle' choices. Fell pregnant and it doesn't suit me careerwise, i only wanted 2 children etc. I feel they are selfish reasons to kill an unborn.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    There was also Malek Thawley, Sheila Hodgers, Michelle Harte, Ann Lovett, the woman kept on life support to gestate a pregnancy even though she was brain dead against the wishes of her husband.....

    Even one woman is too many.
    If women were allowed to make their own choices they might never have died.

    You're going back to 1984 to Anne Lovett and that was a different era with shame of being pregnant outside wedlock. That's irrelevant to today's discussion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    The martyred women narrative is becoming tiresome at present. One poster replied to taking a baby to term with a list of every know complication and condition that could arise. It's getting like the hashtag movements at the moment that don't accept the rule of law as in the Belfast case.

    Are people going to seriously argue that abortions won't take place that are 'lifestyle' choices. Fell pregnant and it doesn't suit me careerwise, i only wanted 2 children etc. I feel they are selfish reasons to kill an unborn.

    No I actually didn’t, I only included the ones off the top of my head that I remembered from when I was in that situation.
    I’m sure there are many more.

    Why are you oversimplifying and dismissing the sacrifice and impact pregnancy had on women’s lives?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭Thepoet85


    NAGDEFI wrote:
    Are people going to seriously argue that abortions won't take place that are 'lifestyle' choices. Fell pregnant and it doesn't suit me careerwise, i only wanted 2 children etc. I feel they are selfish reasons to kill an unborn.


    Yes. I think it was made pretty clear last night that this would be the case.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    You're going back to 1984 to Anne Lovett and that was a different era with shame of being pregnant outside wedlock. That's irrelevant to today's discussion.

    Michelle Harte passed away not too long ago. Same for Malek Thawley.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    There was also Malek Thawley, Sheila Hodgers, Michelle Harte, Ann Lovett, the woman kept on life support to gestate a pregnancy even though she was brain dead against the wishes of her husband.....

    Even one woman is too many.
    If women were allowed to make their own choices they might never have died.

    Countless thousands of babies are too many too. They have rights also.

    You can only arrive at best practice. Unfortunately many women die giving birth also. Portlaoise hospital had many awful cases.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    Michelle Harte passed away not too long ago. Same for Malek Thawley.

    Unfortunately unborn babies aborted don't have names i could type or i'd be here all night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    Countless thousands of babies are too many too. They have rights also.

    You can only arrive at best practice. Unfortunately many women die giving birth also. Portlaoise hospital had many awful cases.

    They shouldn’t have any rights at the expense of the woman carrying it.

    We need to look after the people we do have before we look after the potential people.

    A woman’s needs, wants, and wishes should always come before that of a pre 12 week old fetus. She is more important unless she chooses otherwise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    Unfortunately unborn babies aborted don't have names i could type or i'd be here all night.

    I’m sure the families of those women who needlessly lost their lives will appreciate that.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    They shouldn’t have any rights at the expense of the woman carrying it.

    We need to look after the people we do have before we look after the potential people.

    A woman’s needs, wants, and wishes should always come before that of a pre 12 week old fetus. She is more important unless she chooses otherwise.

    I disagree. 2 human beings. Woman's health and well being paramount and to be saved at the cost of the baby if it comes to it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    I disagree. 2 human beings. Woman's health and well being paramount and to be saved at the cost of the baby if it comes to it.

    That’s fine. A Yes vote will allow you to continue to live your life by that principle.
    A No vote ensures the whole of society has to live by your morals.
    Even though they also disagree with you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    No I actually didn’t, I only included the ones off the top of my head that I remembered from when I was in that situation.
    I’m sure there are many more.

    Why are you oversimplifying and dismissing the sacrifice and impact pregnancy had on women’s lives?

    I'm not dismissing it but you're overstating a natural event. The way you describe it the human race would be extinct now.

    And in response to your statement that if people want abortions they will find them, yes. But it's also true that abortion rates soar when introduced in most countries.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    That’s fine. A Yes vote will allow you to continue to live your life by that principle.
    A No vote ensures the whole of society has to live by your morals.
    Even though they also disagree with you.

    There is an onus on society as a whole to protect the weaker elements. You tritely dismiss this as imposing my morals on other individuals. Well if one believes saving lives is a greater good than individual choice vote No.

    'He who saves one life saves the world entire'- The Talmud.

    Why do individuals think they have the right to play God with a life?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭Thepoet85


    Here's an idea. Let people choose for themselves what they want to do with their bodies.

    If you don't want to have an abortion, or don't agree with people having them, that's fine, but everyone should be free to do what they want.

    For me, it's no more complicated than that. Both sides can serve up numerous stories that will tug at all our heartstrings. I don't necessarily agree with abortions, but I'll vote yes, because I think everyone in this day and age should be able to decide for themselves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    I disagree. 2 human beings. Woman's health and well being paramount and to be saved at the cost of the baby if it comes to it.

    In other situations when there are two human beings and one of them needs a bit of the others body to survive (e.g. A blood donation, a kidney, bone marrow) they have no right to demand that piece of the others body.

    People, wonderful people, choose to donate; but if you're a perfect match for kidney donation and your match will die without your kidney, no country in the world will force you into the operating theatre.

    That's a real living human being but your bodily autonomy trumps their right to life.

    Why does a foetus have more right to life then a real living human being?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    I’m sure the families of those women who needlessly lost their lives will appreciate that.

    Here we go the martyr card again. You have a few names of women? More are killed in car crashes on an average weekend.

    Perhaps some men took their lives because their babies were aborted? Your focus is so narrow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    In other situations when there are two human beings and one of them needs a bit of the others body to survive (e.g. A blood donation, a kidney, bone marrow) they have no right to demand that piece of the others body.

    People, wonderful people, choose to donate; but if you're a perfect match for kidney donation and your match will die without your kidney, no country in the world will force you into the operating theatre.

    That's a real living human being but your bodily autonomy trumps their right to life.

    Why does a foetus have more right to life then a real living human being?

    In your opinion. Where has this been written in stone? If anything when a life is dependant on you one has more responsibility.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    There is an onus on society as a whole to protect the weaker elements. You tritely dismiss this as imposing my morals on other individuals. Well if one believes saving lives is a greater good than individual choice vote No.

    'He who saves one life saves the world entire'- The Talmud.

    Why do individuals think they have the right to play God with a life?

    And I already told you, I don’t agree with your definition of ‘saved’ when you don’t take into account the circumstances that baby will be born into.
    ‘Saved’ yet born into poverty, neglect, severe disability, a home with domestic violence or addiction issues, you take none of that into account. Born, but at what cost?

    Children should be wanted and born to loving, stable parents who cherish and adore them.
    If a woman says she cannot offer that to a baby I believe her and will not force her to give birth just to satiate my own desire to ‘save lives’.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    NAGDEFI wrote: »
    Here we go the martyr card again. You have a few names of women? More are killed in car crashes on an average weekend.

    Perhaps some men took their lives because their babies were aborted? Your focus is so narrow.

    Car crashes have nothing to do with the 8th amendment.
    Savita, Malek Thawley, and Michelle Harte lost their lives because of this law. Not to mention the countless others.
    You might think it’s ok to dismiss this number as nothing, but maternity care should not be compromised because of a crap piece of law.
    It shouldn’t happen. Period.
    One woman is too many.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 755 ✭✭✭NAGDEFI


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    And I already told you, I don’t agree with your definition of ‘saved’ when you don’t take into account the circumstances that baby will be born into.
    ‘Saved’ yet born into poverty, neglect, severe disability, a home with domestic violence or addiction issues, you take none of that into account. Born, but at what cost?

    Children should be wanted and born to loving, stable parents who cherish and adore them.
    If a woman says she cannot offer that to a baby I believe her and will not force her to give birth just to satiate my own desire to ‘save lives’.

    Who are you to judge how an individual will emerge from poverty or any of these situations? Many great people emerged from them. They will only form a minority of cases. The majority will be failed contraception and so on. Of course adoption is never mentioned now, though i have many adopted friends who are successful. Let's just kill the baby, yeah?


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