People were told in 2018 that it would be rare, precisely the opposite is happening
Were people told this?
Whatever, get fucked lads
If they’re so pro-life let them all take in a few of the lads without ID documents, scattered around the city centre in tents.
It’s the annual “down with this sort of thing” parade.
Niamh Ní Bhriain can go and fucking shite.
Fair play to them. It takes a lot of courage to stand up for your beliefs especially when they run contrary to establishment.
Had the unfortunate experience of being stuck in traffic because of these fools while trying to get accross the city to get to a sick relative. There was a number of American flags and slogans.. we know where they’re getting their funding for their stage and set up. Also a lot of men and elderly women who’ll never have their lives at risk.
Always makes me laugh that they’re “pro life” yet don’t care for the life of a woman who is in danger due to pregnancy. They can be in danger for health reasons, financial, abusive relationships etc. yet these fools wouldn’t care as long as the woman is forced to continue with an unwanted pregnancy. No woman makes the decision of having an abortion easily. Sick fucks.
Fuck off back to 1950 where ye came from.
I hope all their socks got wet, absolute gobshites
Fucking oxygen thieves
That particular horse has long bolted.
If men could get pregnant there would be abortion clinics on every street corner
This subject made me uncomfortable as a man. I felt I had no right to vote on a woman’s healthcare. It took me a while to realise that I wasn’t voting for or against abortion but for a woman’s right to choose.
Regardless of the subject, these people have a right to peaceful protest. The same way women should have a right to choose. Many people wouldn’t like to see them exercising their rights today. I find it hard to understand why they feel they should have these rights, but a woman should have none.
I think the protesters today are very narrow-minded on the subject. It’s an easy thing to form a view. It takes a lot more thought to try and understand someone else’s. I fear many of those present don’t have the ability.
Their head cheerleader is saying 10’000 abortions happened in this country in 2023
I would love to see where they are getting that number from, cos that sounds like a very american conservative christian number that they love to throw around in the states to justify their hatred
‘Reform’ in this case meaning ‘reverse’
>There was a small counter protest led by People Before Profit at the Spire with around 100 people in attendance.
lol
Why is abortion an issue now? Too much right-wing American telly again?
Why repeal the change? Why not investigate why there are so many unwanted pregnancies and tackle it before it gets to conception?
If they have to protest I’d much rather see them do it marching through the streets or at Leinster house instead of outside maternity hospitals or gp surgeries.
If these protestors really wanted to reduce number of terminations they want to be out protesting societal issues, like the amount of homeless children there is. For them its far more convient for them to protest on behalf of those with no voice. Ive seen them saying stuff like “aborting our future”. Whose future? Definitely not for the parents who can barely feed their 2 kids let alone a 3rd or the young woman living in her childhood bedroom with no hope of moving out trying to start a carer or go to college.
The people who decided to terminate their pregnancies though don’t need to validate their reasons for doing so, to anyone ever.
We need to protect the will of the people and not write cranks like this off as cranks. See what happened in the US – the cranks hung around for sixty years while everyone else assumed it was a settled law. These cranks are dangerous and their ideology is dangerous.
The referendum settled this. 12 weeks no questions asked, any time if the mother’s life is in danger. This is a good settlement based on a careful analysis of all viewpoints.
There’s no way in hell any Irish government is going to revisit it
“We had 10,000 abortions in 2023,” she said. So that would mean for every one person at this rally, 3+ women were able to get an abortion rather than having an unwanted child, undertaking a dangerous birth/post-birth, or travelling to another county.
Let them be annoyed.
Fun fact since they’re the ones funding this – the American Evangelical pro life movement only came about as a reaction from religious groups having their tax exemptions threatened by Richard Nixon and alter Jimmy Carter if they did not close/desegregate their ‘Christian Academies’ that parents flicked to en masses (particularly in the south, sometimes 80+ percent of white kids) after Brown vs Board of Education ruled that minority children also had to be allowed in the same public schools as whites.
Before that, the American protestant (Baptist, evangelical, etc) groups were largely massively in favour of abortion up to and including for reasons like the mothers physical, mental and emotional health. This includes when Roe v Wade was in the courts to allow abortion.
The ‘religious right’ group then only became a thing when Reagan (who allowed some of the most liberal abortion laws in the entire US when governor of California) was supportive of appointing judges willing to allow this practice carry on, though that thankfully flopped. It’s where the term Bork’d came from, after the same judge Reagan wanted to put on the supreme court, when he got torn to shreds in his hearings to see if he should be appointed. Reagan got voted in overwhelmingly by these people over Jimmy Carter, probably the most devout president in all of American history who would then spend much of the rest of his life getting housing and infrastructure build for impoverished areas of Africa.
Basically, the modern day pro life movement started out as a rallying cry from the same people that were on the wrong and losing side of the civil rights movement.
I can’t recommend a quick skim through this enough, starting in 1971 – it’s absolutely wild: https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/baptist/sbcabres.html
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People were told in 2018 that it would be rare, precisely the opposite is happening
Were people told this?
Whatever, get fucked lads
If they’re so pro-life let them all take in a few of the lads without ID documents, scattered around the city centre in tents.
It’s the annual “down with this sort of thing” parade.
Niamh Ní Bhriain can go and fucking shite.
Fair play to them. It takes a lot of courage to stand up for your beliefs especially when they run contrary to establishment.
Had the unfortunate experience of being stuck in traffic because of these fools while trying to get accross the city to get to a sick relative. There was a number of American flags and slogans.. we know where they’re getting their funding for their stage and set up. Also a lot of men and elderly women who’ll never have their lives at risk.
Always makes me laugh that they’re “pro life” yet don’t care for the life of a woman who is in danger due to pregnancy. They can be in danger for health reasons, financial, abusive relationships etc. yet these fools wouldn’t care as long as the woman is forced to continue with an unwanted pregnancy. No woman makes the decision of having an abortion easily. Sick fucks.
Fuck off back to 1950 where ye came from.
I hope all their socks got wet, absolute gobshites
Fucking oxygen thieves
That particular horse has long bolted.
If men could get pregnant there would be abortion clinics on every street corner
This subject made me uncomfortable as a man. I felt I had no right to vote on a woman’s healthcare. It took me a while to realise that I wasn’t voting for or against abortion but for a woman’s right to choose.
Regardless of the subject, these people have a right to peaceful protest. The same way women should have a right to choose. Many people wouldn’t like to see them exercising their rights today. I find it hard to understand why they feel they should have these rights, but a woman should have none.
I think the protesters today are very narrow-minded on the subject. It’s an easy thing to form a view. It takes a lot more thought to try and understand someone else’s. I fear many of those present don’t have the ability.
Their head cheerleader is saying 10’000 abortions happened in this country in 2023
I would love to see where they are getting that number from, cos that sounds like a very american conservative christian number that they love to throw around in the states to justify their hatred
‘Reform’ in this case meaning ‘reverse’
>There was a small counter protest led by People Before Profit at the Spire with around 100 people in attendance.
lol
Why is abortion an issue now? Too much right-wing American telly again?
Why repeal the change? Why not investigate why there are so many unwanted pregnancies and tackle it before it gets to conception?
If they have to protest I’d much rather see them do it marching through the streets or at Leinster house instead of outside maternity hospitals or gp surgeries.
If these protestors really wanted to reduce number of terminations they want to be out protesting societal issues, like the amount of homeless children there is. For them its far more convient for them to protest on behalf of those with no voice. Ive seen them saying stuff like “aborting our future”. Whose future? Definitely not for the parents who can barely feed their 2 kids let alone a 3rd or the young woman living in her childhood bedroom with no hope of moving out trying to start a carer or go to college.
The people who decided to terminate their pregnancies though don’t need to validate their reasons for doing so, to anyone ever.
We need to protect the will of the people and not write cranks like this off as cranks. See what happened in the US – the cranks hung around for sixty years while everyone else assumed it was a settled law. These cranks are dangerous and their ideology is dangerous.
The referendum settled this. 12 weeks no questions asked, any time if the mother’s life is in danger. This is a good settlement based on a careful analysis of all viewpoints.
There’s no way in hell any Irish government is going to revisit it
“We had 10,000 abortions in 2023,” she said. So that would mean for every one person at this rally, 3+ women were able to get an abortion rather than having an unwanted child, undertaking a dangerous birth/post-birth, or travelling to another county.
Let them be annoyed.
Fun fact since they’re the ones funding this – the American Evangelical pro life movement only came about as a reaction from religious groups having their tax exemptions threatened by Richard Nixon and alter Jimmy Carter if they did not close/desegregate their ‘Christian Academies’ that parents flicked to en masses (particularly in the south, sometimes 80+ percent of white kids) after Brown vs Board of Education ruled that minority children also had to be allowed in the same public schools as whites.
Before that, the American protestant (Baptist, evangelical, etc) groups were largely massively in favour of abortion up to and including for reasons like the mothers physical, mental and emotional health. This includes when Roe v Wade was in the courts to allow abortion.
The ‘religious right’ group then only became a thing when Reagan (who allowed some of the most liberal abortion laws in the entire US when governor of California) was supportive of appointing judges willing to allow this practice carry on, though that thankfully flopped. It’s where the term Bork’d came from, after the same judge Reagan wanted to put on the supreme court, when he got torn to shreds in his hearings to see if he should be appointed. Reagan got voted in overwhelmingly by these people over Jimmy Carter, probably the most devout president in all of American history who would then spend much of the rest of his life getting housing and infrastructure build for impoverished areas of Africa.
Basically, the modern day pro life movement started out as a rallying cry from the same people that were on the wrong and losing side of the civil rights movement.
I can’t recommend a quick skim through this enough, starting in 1971 – it’s absolutely wild: https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/baptist/sbcabres.html