BREAKING: Two major exit polls project that Irish voters have decided to repeal strict ban on abortions.
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 25, 2018
Irish vote on abortion
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Posted by Pete George on 26th May 2018
https://yournz.org/2018/05/26/irish-vote-on-abortion/
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Griff
/ 26th May 2018https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/25/ireland-votes-to-relax-abortion-laws
Gezza
/ 26th May 2018Good to see the Catholic Church get a resounding fingers from the populati at last.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 26th May 2018Pretty disgraceful here that a Labour Government chose a Catholic judge to run its Royal Commission on Contraception and Abortion and the subsequent National Government passed an abortion law drafted by two of its Catholic MPs.
We’ll see if Jacinda does more than lip service to making amends.
Gezza
/ 26th May 2018I wouldn’t bet on it. She probably won’t be in the frame of mind to be pushing for any change to abortion laws.
Kitty Catkin
/ 26th May 2018As abortion is to all intents and purposes on demand here, I don’t see why people are making a hoohah about it. Killing babies is legal and has been for many years.
How could anyone vote for abortion with their own baby beside them ?
Alan Wilkinson
/ 26th May 2018Probably by realising they were voting for choice, not abortion.
Corky
/ 26th May 2018Welcome to the real world, Ireland. With this decision will come both pain and relief.
Kitty Catkin
/ 26th May 2018How profound that is not.
Corky
/ 27th May 2018I was thinking of mothers who will live with bitter disappointment and mental illness because of their decision to have an abortion. An abortion option previously not available. Of course they now have the freedom to choose such mental conditions..
Conversley, for other women abortion will be a godsend as a quick contraceptive option and as a means to terminate a baby that isn’t wanted.
I find nothing profound with this. Maybe you are confused again?
Alan Wilkinson
/ 27th May 2018Mental illness will certainly have other causes.
Corky
/ 27th May 2018No doubt, Alan. My specific comments relate to the more than a few women who for a variety of reasons will later become mental unstable when the impact of what they have done becomes apparent.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 27th May 2018Mentally unstable men seem a far greater risk to women than allowing them to choose if snd when to have a baby.
Kitty Catkin
/ 27th May 2018If I were you, I wouldn’t start on the personal abusw again . This was what saw you banned from YNZ the last time,
You were stating the obvious as if it was an original thought, which is why I said that it was NOT profound, not that it WAS profound.
Zedd
/ 26th May 2018Im just glad to see that Ireland will have a BINDING referendum on this.. maybe something NZ should listen to on ‘our upcoming one’ !!
Zedd
/ 26th May 2018also; good to see that RCC did not sway the public with; fear-mongering, eternal damnation etc. as they have in the past
Alan Wilkinson
/ 26th May 2018Too many clerics trying to dodge eternal damnation themselves.
traveller
/ 26th May 2018Women’s choice and all consequences theirs…they have to live with their decision either way.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 26th May 2018Almost all – except for maintenance obligations on the father when identified.
Gezza
/ 26th May 2018Lovely item on 1ewes just now about all the interest there is expected to be in Jacinda’s baby when it is born & how Jacinda and the news media will probably handle how much it will feature vs what privacy will probably be granted to them. Lots of vid clips of our “most famous baby bump’. Comparisons with how William & Kate have managed this issue. Jacinda felt that she and Clarke will handle it and that New Zealanders will help them handle it.
Kitty Catkin
/ 26th May 2018Hardly in the same league, the Cambridge’s baby is going to be King of England one day. What a conceited comparison to make, as if there’s any comparison between the two. Who on earth do they think that they are ? Get real, Clarke and Jacinda.
Why the hell should New Zealanders help them to handle it ? We have heard so much about how well Ms Ardern will be able to do both things, let her handle it herself.
Gezza
/ 26th May 2018She didn’t make the comparison: the reporter on 1ewes did. I think Jacinda just answered some questions – hardly said anything – a microsecond sound-bite or two. Most of the comment in the item was from some gay-sounding bloke in a babywear shop, and a blonde sheila from some PR company – who seemed to think they were experts on such matters.
Fight4NZ
/ 27th May 2018How could anyone vote for abortion with their own baby beside them ?
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Why the hell should New Zealanders help them to handle it ?
Are you not sure whether you want go with milk and honey schmalz or hardline bitter?
Kitty Catkin
/ 27th May 2018Being pro-life is hardly milk and honey schmaltz; have you ever seen a dead baby ? I have. Do you know what a miscarried baby looks like ? I do. This woman seemed to see no contradiction between letting her own baby live and voting to let others be killed. Wake up, abortion is not like an operation for tonsils.
Saying that NZ will help Ardern and Gayford to handle being parents is absurd as well as being sentimentalism.They decided to have the baby when they did, let them handle it. She proclaimed that she could easily be PM and mother, let her prove it. How, precisely. are the rest of us going to help them to handle it ? It’s nonsense. It sounds pretty, but it means nothing.