Abortion Referendum Thread

[Matty_Hislop]

@HBV

a 12 week old foetus looks like barnie,

@HBV

all the people i ever heard who went for a 10 week scan never ever told me it looked like barnie

What are you slavering on about now?

[Cicero_Dandi]

Selfishness.

They are happy to engage in careless behaviour that creates babies but then not deal with consequences of their behaviour. What they do to those unwanted babies is beyond disgusting and should carry a custodial sentence.

[Tank]

@Cicero_Dandi

They are happy to engage in careless behaviour that creates babies but then not deal with consequences of their behaviour.

There are no consequences up until the 16th week of pregnancy at the absolute earliest because the foetus doesn’t feel anything. How can there be consequences if no-one feels anything? Makes no sense.

[backinatracksuit]

Those babies were clearly wanted and loved from the moment their existence was known, the situation you describe is all I know as well but it doesn’t make it the same for everybody,
I’d never suggest a healthy woman should abort a healthy baby but I’d feel stronger that a rape victim or a woman carrying a baby that can’t live outside the womb shouldn’t have the option to, that’s one of the things we’re voting on, very few will be 100% happy either way

[Cicero_Dandi]

There is a consequence, you idiot. Once a woman falls pregnant a life is in process. Do you know what abort means?

[iron_mike]

@Tank

@Cicero_Dandi

They are happy to engage in careless behaviour that creates babies but then not deal with consequences of their behaviour.

There are no consequences up until the 16th week of pregnancy at the absolute earliest because the foetus doesn’t feel anything. How can there be consequences if no-one feels anything? Makes no sense.

What’s your earliest memory?

[Tank]

Before I was 1 and a half years old, an image of me playing with a red tractor on red stairs. What were my parents at letting me play on the stairs? We moved house then when I was 1 and a half but I can remember the red stairs in the old house.
Before I was 1 and a half I assume I felt pain, was conscious, had emotional reactions etc even if I can’t remember it.

[iron_mike]

So you get my point then?

[Tank]

No.

[iron_mike]

But sure if you can’t remember anything before the age of 1 and you assume you could feel pain before that, then how do you know what a 16 week foetus can feel or not feel?

[Tank]

Science

[artfoley]

@Tank

Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEolSjlcqng

[Sidney]

That clip sums up the No campaign’s attitude to “science” beautifully.

[Sidney]

Comical Mary doesn’t know whether she’s coming or going.

Anne-Marie McNally (amomcnally)

[Sidney]

[Cicero_Dandi]

Anne Marie McNally seems to be a bit slow.

[iron_mike]

@Sidney

Comical Mary doesn’t know whether she’s coming or going.

Something that will never be an issue for you

[TreatyStones]

I’m planning on abstaining from the vote, but I have a feeling the smug righteousness of the Repeal “movement” will end up pushing me to vote no out of spite.

[Sidney]

Christ…

[ironmoth]

@Tank

@Cicero_Dandi

They are happy to engage in careless behaviour that creates babies but then not deal with consequences of their behaviour.

There are no consequences up until the 16th week of pregnancy at the absolute earliest because the foetus doesn’t feel anything. How can there be consequences if no-one feels anything? Makes no sense.

Ah here. That’s one of the most idiotic fucking things I’ve read in a long while. Ask any of the wonderful fathers here if their significant others miscarried before the 16th week and whether or not there were consequences. Ditto for abortions. There’s a reason women are offered counselling after an abortion - it’s because there are consequences. Very real consequences.

16th week? Ffs, women can often feel foetal movements by week 13.