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Thread #163518 Message #3904661
Posted By: Jim Carroll
09-Feb-18 - 02:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Thread Killers
Subject: RE: BS: Thread Killers
"Jim I am not a fundamentalist yet I am an abortion survivor."
Lucky old you
I know of women who died here because they were denied a life-saving termination because "we live n a Christian country"
Several children over the last decade or so were forced to go through pregnancy despite the fact they had been raped - by family members or strangers
One particularly nasty case involved an eleven year old daughter of itinerant land-workers who had been awarded two sexually transmitted diseases by her rapist yet was forced to undergo a life-threatening birth and told by her church to "embrace her martyrdom"
Pregnancy termination is not about the likelihood off survival or future health of foetuses - it involves all sorts of often heartrending decisions
If society is happy to send millions of young people to die on the battlefield or turn refugees back to murderous regimes or wars or certain starvation... or refuse to maintain a health sevice which is at present killing patients off through neglect and under-funding - then there has to be room for women to choose not give birth - up to an agreed point.
We are still dominated by a Religion that covered up clerical child rape for many decades, still regards contraception as evil and is at present opposing law reforms that will enable Ireland to arrive at somewhere in the mid twentieth century compared to the rest of the civilised world
I think it high time that such people learned to stay out of other people's bedrooms - that goes for all such voyeurs
Jim Carroll