The death of Savita Halappanavar after she was denied an abortion will divide Ireland

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28. I'm a white liberal Christian living

on a western Indian reservation and I totally agree with you, both on religion staying out of politics and secular life and on the Catholic Church, which has done more damage to native americans than anything besides the U.S. government itself. The Catholic-run boarding schools were horrendous, and I know, or know of, so many older native americans who suffered lifelong trauma because of them.

And the Church got away with it because when they tried to address it through the courts, our state legislature rammed through a bill limiting the time in which suits against the church could be filed to three years from the time of knowledge of the abuse. This effectively ended any suits against the church in this state and the legislature, none of whose members are Indian despite there being nine reservations in this state, refuse to budge under enormous pressure to repeal that damned bill.