Debate Over Abortion Ban Rages On In Ireland

[snooper2]

(good reporting, oh, and reminder to some folks that there ARE fucking douchebags outside the US )

VICE

Published on Oct 21, 2014

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Ireland is the only country in Europe where abortions are illegal — unless the pregnancy poses a risk to the mother’s life. A recent case involving a migrant who was pregnant as a result of rape and forced to have a C-section tested the limits of Ireland’s laws, and has angered the country’s pro-choice reformists, who are calling for the repeal of the country’s 8th Amendment.

VICE News traveled to Dublin, where thousands of people marched through the city center, calling for real and realistic abortion access in Ireland.

[Dawson Leery]

1. I fully support a woman's right to chose.

The RCC's murder of Savita Halappanavar will always be unacceptable.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Thank you for remembering her

For those who don't know Savita's story...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/10119109/Irish-abortion-law-key-factor-in-death-of-Savita-Halappanavar-official-report-finds.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/savita-halappavanar-abortion-ireland-medical-team-disciplined

Don't think it could happen here? This battle is not over.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. My grandmother fled Ireland because of poverty and repression.

She loathed the church even more than the Brits.

[Warpy]

4. That huge "prolife" march?

Notice that the dominant voices in the crowd cheering that silly woman were male ones?

Men might have dragged their wives to that thing but the wives weren't the ones cheering for oppression.

[KamaAina]

5. London Transports by Maeve Binchy

is a novel about a woman who travels from Ireland to England for an abortion.