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Abortion Law challenge
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Anti-abortion groups are planning to challeng the right of women to terminate their pregnancy.
Story here
What do you think, do they have a point or are they meddling?
Story here
What do you think, do they have a point or are they meddling?
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What is far more interesting is how these groups are planning to argue their case on the basis of the forthcoming EU Constitution. A Constitution which has drawn little more than derision and claims of "loss of sovereignty" from most quarters in the UK.
How conveniently they rally to it, though, when it provides them a platform for their pet grievance.
Don't you love the irony in their stance there.
It's as if they accept that it's okay to abort a (supposedly) fit and health foetus shouldn't be aborted.
I know that isn't what they actually stand for, but the irony made me smile. I have no doubt that their claim will the thrown out.
But they aren't suggesting that the mother should look after the child, but that she should give birth. They give no consideration to the care of the child after that point.
Yes, congratulations, they have now screwed two lives instead of one :rolleyes:
It's sad to think that these people would prefer to see a child brought up in an unstable home, with young or unfit parents and with severe illnesses.
It's easy to have an opinion about something when it doesn't affect you. They should spare a thought for the girls that are in this position, faced with an unwanted pregnancy. It's a very difficult time especially if you're young. The last thing they need is a jumped up 'know it all' calling them a murderer.
Sorry digressing slightly there, I know this thread was about the above article but I feel very strongly about anti-abortion campaigners in general.
The Romans had the right idea. Bring back the lions.
A similar situation has only come up once, in SPUC in 1995, and the anti-abortionists successfully managed to prevent a UK womens group from advertisng abortions in Eire. But the ECJ decided it, as a botch-job, in purely economic terms, rather than the moral implication, so no-one really knows how the ECJ would react again.
But the Advocate General decided SPUC, as an advisor, against SPUC (Society for protection of unborn children) in terms of morals, so really who knows?
Its still distasteful, and its a real shame that the individuals doing this werent aborted. Itd certainly have made the world a better place.
*cough* twats