Eighth Amendment poll

Started by Farrandeelin, May 01, 2018, 03:36:55 PM

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Are you in favour of repealing the 8th amendment?

Yes
47 (21.8%)
Yes but have no vote
73 (33.8%)
No
40 (18.5%)
No but have no vote
36 (16.7%)
Undecided
20 (9.3%)

Total Members Voted: 216

Voting closed: May 24, 2018, 03:36:55 PM

sid waddell

Quote from: Syferus on June 03, 2018, 02:19:35 PM
Quote from: Orchard park on June 03, 2018, 01:34:29 PM
Quote from: armaghniac on June 02, 2018, 08:39:53 PM
Quote from: Hardy on June 02, 2018, 07:31:18 PM
Quote from: armaghniac on June 02, 2018, 04:42:05 PM
Quote from: sid waddell on June 01, 2018, 10:55:01 PM
The most effective people at doing that have always been those in the Roman Catholic Church itself.


'How can you cheer abortion?': Bishop 'horrified' by referendum celebrations

Any decent person would find the recent "celebrations" disgusting.

While change was needed the pendulum has swung from one extreme to the other.

Funnily enough, gratuitously judgemental and insulting shite like this is one of the things that people voted against.

You can make a case that abortion is unavoidable in certain circumstances, but whooping and cheering and drinking champagne at the prospect of more abortion is disgusting. Note that you, or all these others you mention, seem to have no problem making a judgment about my comment, which is typical hypocrisy.


I voted yes, proud to do so , so that finally ad an  independent republic we stood up, opened our eyes and decided to deal with a problem instead of hypocritically having our constitution enable the export of the issue as had happened for the past 50 plus years, before thst the state outsourced the issueto thd religious orders  and innocent babies either were sold to USA or ended up in a septic tank in Tuam....

So maybe no need for champers or msybd therdbix to svknowledge as a republic we sre maturing  in our decision making...

Yeah, no. A lot of those campaigners invested years of their lives to get those basic rights. It was a battle for every last concession and step forward for them. FFS, it took us this long to truly legislate for the implications of the X case, now a quarter century old - that is an incredible lack of courage on Ireland's behalf as a government and as a country.

This forum has some absolutely batshît opinions on women's issues and this obsession with the celebration of a wonderful endorsement of them as equal citizens is high on the list.
What's hilarious is that these posters still seem to be labouring under the delusion that these are "normal" views and that they are "normal" people, as opposed to being a total laughing stock.

I suppose they might be "normal views" if one exclusively mixes within a cohort of people who all vote for Jim Allister.

But in the real world.....nah.

Syferus

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Quote from: Rudi on June 03, 2018, 03:27:17 PM
I am usually pro choice. Individuals should be left to make their own decisions for good or bad. In this case 3 were involved the mother father and baby. The baby had absolutely no say, the fathers say is incredibly limited too. Regarding voluntary euthanasia its up to the individual, kicking religion out of school dont care, they do own the land and buildings which would be an issue. People who voted yes because of the church are flawed.

Do you seriously think anyone voting Yes on a womens' rights issue did so because of a church whose influence on present day society is absolutely minuscule? People who voted Yes simply do not care enough about the church for it to influence their decision either way.

You're giving the church far too much credit (not for the first time) and far too little respect for the motivatations of the 67% of people who were Yes voters.

magpie seanie

Someone lock this thread please.