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Thread #164045   Message #3921982
Posted By: Steve Shaw
03-May-18 - 08:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Abortion 8th amendment referendum, Eire
Subject: RE: BS: Abortion 8th amendment referendum, Eire
So, Robomatic, you set your caller what you think was a clever booby-trap. You posed them a question to which there is not a correct answer. Had they had a little more presence of mind they would have told you that no-one on the planet "favours" a painful, psychologically-traumatic procedure. This is not about "favouring" or not "favouring" abortion. It is not about polarising people's opinions in a divisive manner, which your "clever" question was attempting to do. It's about finding a way of reducing unwanted pregnancies to the most humanly-possible minimum. And while we work with good will towards that end (I'll refrain from revisiting my usual mantra yet again) we'd do well to remember that banning or restricting legal abortion will do nothing to stop abortions and everything to increase misery, ill-health, mortality rates and poverty for thousands of women who we have all serially let down. It would also help if we remembered who owns the bodies we are talking about.