While American women struggle to retain their rights, in Ireland, the Abortion Rights Campaign is sending this postcard to legislators to demand abortion legislation before the summer recess. According to the Irish Times: "The "10 days of abortion rights action" will begin on March 1st and will involve a series of events and demonstrations around the country." So what does "Legislate for X" mean? According to the Catholic News Service:
In practice, abortion is illegal in Ireland. However, a controversial 1992 Supreme Court judgment -- known as the X case -- found that there is a constitutional right to abortion where there is a substantial risk to the life of the mother, including the risk of suicide, up to birth. Six successive governments have not acted on the issue. However, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2010 that Ireland must clarify when women can access abortion under the 1992 ruling.
(more on the The X Case here and here)
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What Year is it ? And This world still has Witch-Hunts ! Must be Nazi-control tactics ! CRAZY .........
Has any women been hung yet for having an abortion?
Hey TM , Apparently they want to hang All women All over this world ! Again - What year is it ?
I don't know, have they begun to mark time yet? Of course back in the stone age a man could rape anything, or anyone he liked. I would think that laws would be appreciated that protect the women. What if it was your sister, mother, daughter, or girlfriend?
Apparently they seem to think that it is the 1200's ! Flaming torches and pitchforks .....
Women haven't been hung yet, no. But Savita Halapannavar died of septicemia.
No thankful Mom...but one woman died recently despite there being clear health risk with her planned and wanted pregnancy. She was a medical professional herself and despite several visits to A&E was refused a termination. She was told tough luck...the fetus life is more important that yours, basically...And to quote 'This is a Catholic country'
And I think it's important to note that the fetus that was being protected was not viable, i.e. they knew it was dying, it was a matter of when, not if.
@Claire:
That woman was Savita Halapannavar. I will never forget her name.
What's worse was she wasn't even Catholic. Someone else's religious beliefs killed her.
I'll bet the fundies are livid jealous here in the US (not of the post-card)!
A world of 6.8 billion people should not be this collectively stupid..
Thank you for sharing our struggles with your audience! We love you Rachel!
Signed,
A US ex-pat in Ireland
Thank you so much for highlighting this issue on the world stage. Americans are suffering a severe roll back of their rights at the moment, but Irish women have never been able to access their right to safe medical treatment.
We now have a cross-cultural/comparative study that confirms what I've been saying all along.
1. Anti choice/forced birth fanatics care nothing for human life. Adult women dying from complications of a pregnancy, and young teenage rape victims, are human lives, far more so than a group of cells.
2. Their sole concern is to pervert laws to force their theology on everyone. They do this because they indulge in the childish conceit that their personal theology is the only valid theology, and must, therefor, bind everyone.
3. They insinuate themselves in governments like virulent viruses, and divert these governments into aggressive and intrusive actions against women who don't conform to their particular theological tenets.
4. Getting people to think of these wrathful fanatics as "pro-life" was a monumental public relations coup, for the reasons stated in 1., supra.
i think its ridiculous that the gop argues about abortion. mostly because its all men doing the talking. what do they understand about how a women feels when she is pregnant. talk about sharia law. the gop have become a party of old, rich, white men, telling everyone what they should do. the gop used to be made up of conservative, intelligent thinkers. now all they have are dumb stinkers!