A Woman's Right Is in Peril

[atommom]

Four days after his second inauguration, George Bush addressed an anti-abortion rally in Washington, D.C., by phone. "The America of our dreams, where every child is welcomed in law, in life, and protected in law, may be some ways away, but even from the far side of the river . . . we can see its glimmerings," he told the crowd. "I ask that God bless you for your dedication."

Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, went even further. "The end of abortion on demand has started," he said to the tens of thousands of people who attended the rally. Interviewed by an anti-abortion group at the event, he also said, "This is a pro-life country."

If Bush and Brownback and the anti-abortion movement have their way, it will be, even though the majority of Americans support choice.

But the views of the public are not dominating the debate in Washington and in statehouses around the country. The views of the anti-abortion zealots are.

http://www.progressive.org/april05/com0405.html

[rkc3]

1. There have been tens of thousands attending this rally since Roe v.

Wade was passed. So you can throw that shit out the window.

If the repubs were truly pro-life, they would have passed legislation that meets Constitutional muster - not the half-hearted attempts that "prove" they are looking out for the unborn. They are only pandering to their base.

[HockeyMom]

2. Birth Control Pill too

As we have seen with the pharmacists, even birth control is threatened. Remember, Griswald case, which was cited in Roe, was about birth control, not abortion. I wonder how many of these prolife people would like having their birth control banned too?

[_TJ_]

3. Please please please stand up and fight this

Here in Ireland, a woman cannot get a termination unless she can
prove that she is suicidal - if even then.

You do NOT want your fine country to end up in the same situation
we have here. More than 100,000 irish women have had to go
abroad to England to get a termination since 1967.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Ireland

Please look after your rights or you will lose them!

TJ

[atommom]

4. There are many people here that would like to see it that way.

They're making it more difficult already, although they have not yet succeeded in making it illegal. Was the anti-abortion movement in Ireland tied in with religion too?

[_TJ_]

5. Everything that has happened in Ireland for centuries...

...has been tied in with religion in some way or other. This
country was effectively run as a catholic theocracy until the
1950s-1960s.

Some wikipedia paraphrases:

In 1983 the Irish constitution was amended to assert that a fetus has
an explicit right to life equal to that of its mother, with the Irish state guaranteeing
to protect that right.

the case for this amendment was argued by the main opposition party, the Roman
Catholic Church, some protestant church leaders and an pro-life lobby group called
the Pro-Life Amendment Campaign (PLAC)

Our country is a beautiful, free liberal democracy - but we still
have a moral hangover from centuries of Catholic domination.
The result is a barbaric mistreatment of women and a denial of
their rights.

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[funflower]

7. Choice around the world

Anybody know what the law is on abortion in Italy? Just wondered what was the situation in the land of His Holiness.