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It is about time it was amended, women shouldn't have to come across the Irish sea for a termination.
Also, regarding a microscopic or near-microscopic bundle of at most a few hundred undifferentiated cells, which is what an embryo is pre-implantation, as fully human is bizarre, to say the least.
It's also about time that we stopped using the anti-choice lobby's preferred term, "pro-life". They are nothing of the sort, unless they're also pacifist, anti-blood-sport vegans, but in any case life as such is not the point - happiness is (I'm a thorough-going rule-utilitarian ethically). Also, regarding a microscopic or near-microscopic bundle of at most a few hundred undifferentiated cells, which is what an embryo is pre-implantation, as fully human is bizarre, to say the least.
Until the mid 19th century the Roman Catholic Church held that the embryo did not acquire a soul until the 40th day of pregnancy, this being the opinion of Thomas Aquinas having studied - not biblical - but Aristotelian "natural law". (I'm sure I have heard somewhere that only boys acquired souls at 40 days, girls - being inferior - had to wait until 90 days.) However, it is now the view that the soul enters the new life at the moment of conception. Presumably, then, the proper role of the scrotum is a pouch for carrying souls - which, no doubt, is the reason a male ballet dancer encloses his scrotum in a hard protective container.
Amazing that contraception itself was illegal in Ireland. I am expecting a yes vote. My mother nearly died like Ms Halappanavar, as she had a Catholic obstetrician, not in Ireland. Bastard.
The Irish journalist Philip Nolan made the interesting point that neither church nor state in Ireland have recognised conception as the beginning of life. For example, if you miscarry, you are not allowed to have a funeral, nor a baptism. If a baby is stillborn, it can't be registered as a birth if the baby is under 500 gms. Life = weight. From Twitter.
Not a pleasant thought that last sentence H H.Regards ippy
Never knew that, thought male ballet dancers were au naturel, will never see them in same light again. I know male swimmers/divers wear something that tucks it all away neatly.
I recall once hearing some kind of fashion expert opine that men's ties were actually phallic symbols.
I’m mindful that there’ll be people hurting today. I don’t ageee with them and it’s right that the law will change, but the majority of people in the ‘no’ camp largely were acting for what they believed to be the right reasons. They aren’t evil even though their beliefs resulted in great cruelty and loss. These things are seldom straightforward.
