Abortion Referendum Thread

[Cicero_Dandi]

And to be born?

[glasagusban]

People are born, although some of them don’t know they are born.

[Juhniallio]

@glasagusban

I got to work on a case before of an adopted man. He knew who his mother was I think and was trying to get access to some sort of record linking him and her, his name had been changed at birth. The administration and barriers put in his way by the system and the hospital were awful, very unfair. People have a right to know.

Poor fucker. All that hassle and then gets you working on his case on top of that???

[glasagusban]

I was the one that got him his records pal, brick wall until then.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

@glasagusban

I was the one that got him his records pal, brick wall until then.

All of them or just the early stuff.

[Bandage]

John Connors’ tweet just now.

He’s more in common with @HBV than I thought.

[Juhniallio]

Throw it up there. I’m not on twitter.

[Copper_pipe]

This one?

[the_man_himself]

He’s some clown. The FF/FG lads are tyrants but Mary Lou who’s the most outspoken in being in favour of it gets away scot free

[Matty_Hislop]

The no crowd are plumbing new depths.

Thom Malone (thom_malone)

[anon7035031]

@caoimhaoin

That’s essentially all that matters. If you have ever looked into the eyes of a girl who did that there is only one way you would vote.

I would go further and say if (as a man) you have made even the slightest attempt to understand what it’s like to be a woman, then the only options are to vote yes or abstain. No woman should be forced to go through a pregnancy against her will, it’s a stone age barbaric concept.

[Gman]

I dont know if ironic is the word, but the fact he says he “gets a pain in his stomach” when he said he was pro choice is a fairly strange way to describe it considering the discussion at hand.

[anon7035031]

What does “allowed abort” mean in the real world, as opposed to the pretend world? Under current Irish law, any woman is “allowed” travel to terminate a pregnancy. How do you propose these women should be stopped from choosing to terminate their pregnancies?

[the_man_himself]

What about the the vast amounts of women that will vote no?

[anon7035031]

I can’t even begin to understand that. It would appear a significant majority of younger women are yes, while older women are split 50:50 or even a majority no. I can only assume it’s the influence of the church, which is undoubtedly stronger with the older generation.

[Cicero_Dandi]

Why do yes siders have such problems with imagery depicting what they want to happen?

[Cicero_Dandi]

Or the fact the older generation have a greater appreciation of life.

[the_man_himself]

I hate all these Iona Institute fuckwits and have no time for the religious arguments but I just feel it is wrong if a baby/foetus doesn’t get the chance of a life and I think a lot of others are in the same boat

[Cicero_Dandi]

Precisely but get prepared to be called a religious nutter by Spoofer McBigot there.

[anon7035031]

Like the one’s from your neck of the woods who slaughtered thousands of their neighbors?