Ireland’s first abortion clinic opens in Belfast despite opposition - POLL

It's horrible. It's murder. The pendulem has now broken off on this swing, because there is no going back. Unless there is a death in the family, I will never visit Ireland again. The culture of death has arrived there.

Let me pls add one more comment re gay people and their right to have a civil marriage under state law. Just like str8 people, lots of gays are run arounds, perhaps even more because they arent in a legal relationship and in most of the USA cannot do so................Wouldn't it be nice if gays could marry under state law and help to set an example for all the str8s who with their 50% plus divorce rate (prob means75% of str8s have GFs (or BFs on the side).............NOw we should all understand how the church has gone off the rails re gay peoples rights. Showing once again that the church mean sprits anyone who doesnt agree with their often immoral morality.............The chief homophobe of the MD legislature - DD - last srpping is wife caught up to him and left him. Another homophobe in the state govt - same thing - his wife got suspicious and hired a detective to follow him.Gues what kind of bar he frequented............it never fails ...........One must wonder what the popes butler was going to expose re the anti gay german pope. We can only guess.

Im am strongly pro-life and I'll never agree to abortion-on-demand, but I'm reminded of the Rev. Mother of 5 European nuns who were raped by natives in the Congo in the early '60s. This practical religious woman had made preparations for such a beastly crime and provided each rape victim with the 'morning after' pill to prevent any pregnancies.

Generally it seems the older men with grey hair or baldness that object to a woman's right to choose. They protest at clinics with ugly signs and tend to get murderous if others don't abide by their beliefs, at least in the States.

the catholic church's opposition to ALL forms of birth control, yet its opposition to abortion shows what they are doing.................they want more abortions so they can rant and rave about it And gain more power over everyone's lives............. WE must ask why they didn't rant and rave against the endless molestation of children by their sex starved even forbidden to self sex priests.BTW a significant number of those kids committed suicide............BTW they also oppose stem cell researh - if they oppose the destruction of a zyglote with no nervous system etc, why aren't they opposing sending real people - our soldiers - to die to protect others............One would think they would simply "pray the talibs away".........Stem cell research has been shown in lab animals bred to have altheimers, to be very helpfull in stopping this horid disease that ultimately kills people - first their brain then their body. BTW umbilical and skin cells stem research per a friend whose a post doctoral researcher at NIH says its all but useless...............The real skinny is that stem cell research will lead us to being able to create basic life forms from which we can build eg bio-drugs that target cancers. Current cancer treatment eg drugs tries to kill the cancer while not quite killing the patient............. Meanwhile we have the German pope "supporting life" by in 2009 UNexcommuncating a holocaust denying Bishop Williamson (look it up with google) The church has gone mad under the german pope who served in the hitler jugend in his youth.

If you don't live in Ireland, this is none of your business. The USA has had safe, legal abortions for almost 40 years. Both American Presidential candidates have stated they support leaving the U.S. laws on abortion as they are. Romney made the announcement Tuesday for those who were not paying attention.

Instead of getting an abortion how about using birth control, and you wouldn't have to worry about terminating a pregnacy. Its easy to say "it just happened" when that's not the case, and its just as easy to go on birth control.

Until such time as you can scientifically prove that a zygote is exactly the same as a human being, you don't have a leg to stand on when opposing abortion. Women are not breed mares, and anyone who thinks it's appropriate to force them to undertake a situation that could easily kill them is inhuman.

According to the Eastern philosophy of ancient India & bhakti-yoga wisdom,the jiva (soul) enters the womb through the male semen and then the body begins to form at conception (see Srimad Bhagavatam, etc). The body is given according to the individual's past karma built up over previous lives. As the body is the design and creation of the universal intelligent force (God), it should therefore be used for spiritual purposes. In general, we don't have the right to kill others for several reasons. Why? Did we create the complicated machine of the human body? More could be said, but only so much space here, all the best, Tim

not surprised legal on mainlaad for years why not the north

I think Dawn Purvis should be the first to experience the scalpel>

How disgusting!!! Murder is the only word for it. Many are invited to a baby shower, how many are invited to an abortion shower. I can just see the laughter at one of those awaiting that wonderful (murder) abortion. This is sick!

abortion is murder and no amount of rhetoric or moral relativism will ever change that.

May God have mercy.

Katiemac, I believe you are really out of your depth there. Do you think women in all other countries who are given a safe service without danger of health are all immoral? And for increase of sexual activity, Ireland has still one of the highest birthrates, so where is the problem? Listening to your arguments is like travelling back in time. You already have a good time, especially with child prostitutes, apparently if you pay attention to the site "Turn off the red light" The work house would be just a good solution for all your problems. I don't see anyone objecting to excessive drinking. That is surely more harmful than a woman being assisted decently.