Anti-abortion campaigners threaten to shut down Belfast clinic, the first of its kind in Ireland - VIDEOS

Margaret Higgins was daughter of Irish immigrants in USA. She went on to become Margaret Higgins Sanger, founder of American Birth Control League, now Planned Parenthood. She was a racist who wanted to eliminate “human weeds,” especially through her “Negro Project.” She was supporter of Hitler’s Eugenic Sterilization. Ireland, be aware that the real war against women is abortion—in addition to being a war against the unborn, partially and/or recently born. Aborted women have physical problems, long term complications: and psychological effects. The woman’s ambiguity towards morality of abortion, plus her sense of being forced into it, lead her to guilt, remorse and self-hatred. Many have been driven to alcohol, drug addiction, suicide. In a study of American Journal of Psychiatry, 43% of aborted women had immediate negative response to abortion and in later review, 50%. 10% suffered serious psychiatric complications. 10% were suffering severe mental problems. Why can’t we Irish learn from and avoid other people’s earlier mistakes?

Pilib04. As with the issue of abortion itself there has to be exceptions for male input. Example, for the man who is the father of the unborn child.

Do Northern Ireland (sic) Pro-Life Campaigners concern for life stop at an articial commissioned boundary? Do women from eastern and western Ireland not travel to Scotland for abortions also? An easter-European woman representing Ulster women? Being taxpayers entitles one to abortions? British women travel to the mainland too for a variety of reasons other than abortion. If a woman has a right to choose abortion, does a fertilised ovum/embryo/fetus/child have a right to choose life? Best form of contraception and abortion is sexual abstinence/continence. Abortion only in case of threat to life of woman.

Why are a alot of pro choice vegans??

Pregnancy and fertility are two naturally occurring conditions, that are a God-given part of a woman's biological makeup. The pro-choicers would have us believe that these are health-threatening conditions which can only be settled by access to abortion, which isn't much of a choice it seems to me. Ireland has long since been recognized as one of the safest place to have a child, which renders the evil of abortion pretty obsolete as a solution, unless you want abortion-on-demand, which seems to be the ultimate objective of many on the "pro-choice" side. Womens "health" issues are in a reality a stalking horse for the "right" of a woman to dispose of the vulnerable human life in her womb for reasons of convenience.

What "Association of Obstetricians" katiemac is talking about? -- a search engine turns up zilch for that group. But the anti-choice fanatics that assembled in Dublin were a political activist group calling themselves "The International Symposium on Maternal Health," including a handful of people with medical training. On the Internet you can read their "abortion is not medically necessary" quackery that begins with the premiss that a maternal mortality rate of 20% for fatal pregnancies is acceptable in cases of endangered maternal health, so if a 20% pregnancy death rate is just fine with you, then you will believe that abortion is not medically necessary! They sent out invitations to obstetricians to attend their "symposium" under the signature of Dr. Eoghan de Faoite, writing, "On behalf of the pro-life movement in Ireland I want to thank you in advance for your support. Please do not hesitate to get in contact if you have any further questions, God bless-- International Symposium on Maternal Health." I wonder whether any real physicians attended. Data are readily available on the Internet to show that katiemac is as far from the medical truth about abortion as a snowball is from the Sahara. Do your own research -- don't be duped.

Aren't we all ultimately pro-"Life" in principle? But the pregnant mother surely should have the last word on how she treats her own body, beyond any other, external opinion, preference or point of view?

Not religious myself, but if I was, I would argue that God put the woman in total charge of her embryo for the 9 months of gestation. Otherwise he'd have made us fertilise like fish. (Though personally I'm glad he didn't!)

Men should have no say in this, one way or another!

Nicomax, That is certainly true!

Oh, and not more than a month ago the Association of Obstetricians stated that abortion is NEVER medically necessary.

Take note of the U.S. Contraception was legalized in the 1930s without significantly decreasing pregnancies. Sex-ed became prevalant in the 60s, but doesn't seem to have any impact on teen pregnancy or STDs. Abortion became legal in the 1970s and neither teen pregnancy nor crime (as promised) have decreased one iota. The only change was that the 'backstreet butchers' moved to Main St. All we have to show for the efforts of the 'Choice' crowd is record infidelity, record STDs, breast cancer epidemics, fertility problems and record low Gross Domestic Product. Meanwhile Planned Parenthood and affiliate Maria Stopes continue their Eugenics work. Remember, Ireland, the Brits didn't think you had a right to life 100 years ago, and there is no reason to think they have changed their minds.

Women having sex primarily for the enjoyment of it is a hard concept for many religious groups to understand or accept. Deep down it's contraception they are trying to prevent.

We know that the Six-County state was granted an exemption from G.B.s abortion laws in the 70s, both Unionists and Nationalist M.P.s having sought such an exemption. Many pro-lifers agree that abortion should be allowed in certain cases, such as when the mother's life in in danger. But if the abortion clinic is allowed to function in Belfast, future Irish citizens from both sides of the Border will be slaughtered by the thousands.

Women are not breed mares, and no one should be forced to go through a situation that could kill them. As for these "pro-life" agitators, they're only pro-birth. They fight contraception and education that will help women keep from getting pregnant, and they don't care about the kid once it's born. Their actions consistently prove that.