48 Comments

• BippyBellito | Oct 13, 2012, 12:23 PM EDT

  Is it really being named the Obama/Biden Abortion Clinic?

• jacersagain | Oct 12, 2012, 08:04 PM EDT

  As I’ve said before on abortion I was once pro-choice (despite being a Catholic) but after personally listening to the horrendous aftermath emotional stories of women who chose abortion, I can no longer say that abortion is a right choice. Marie Stopes belonged to her times. She would not ever have known the psychological after-effects of abortion on the women of her times. It’s our times now, Marie is no longer around. Today, women are better informed, better supported and have no reason to abort except on medical or spiritual grounds as they may freely choose. This proposed murder clinic should be seen in modern days to be what it is: a once was back-street profiteering organisation, now a legalised one and should not be allowed to operate.

• TayandCake | Oct 12, 2012, 12:02 PM EDT

  Marie Stopes was a bigot, she said Prussians, Russians, Catholic and Jews are evil or something worst. She also sent Hitler a book of love poems. What is with these bleeding heart liberal lefties, don't they know they are becoming what it is they hate, FACISTS. Some of them have stopped using the term multicultural and began using the creepy term enrichment. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON FOLKS???

• marciaashley | Oct 12, 2012, 10:37 AM EDT

  if some one would end a life because of their greed and selfishness then i would never want to meet you or speak a kind word of you. how can you live with yourselves knowing what you have done. that poor little baby. i wrote a poem about this two weeks ago and it is good.

• IrelandNorth | Oct 12, 2012, 06:00 AM EDT

  (a) There's no evidence that Dawn Purvis was ever a member of the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), even if she WAS a spokesperson for their political wing, the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP). (b) To her credit, she's one of at least two women from a loyalist background in the northren province of Ulster actively learning the Irish language (Gaelic), (the other one being a Derry City Councillor. Ergo progressive! (c) Abortion was legal on the mainland before it was legal either on the Island of Great Britain, or now on the Island of Ireland. (d) It's as ethically untenable to be anti abortion if one is not also a pacifist and vegetarian. (e) As much as it is to be pro-choice whilst also denying an embryo/fetus/baby life! (f) Either way, it's a personal decision, and nobody's business but the subjects.

• jetsnoone | Oct 12, 2012, 02:16 AM EDT

  IRA should close the clinic using violence if necessary.... time to take back your country from Brit. policy of killing your own children.

• Rebelforce | Oct 12, 2012, 12:20 AM EDT

  The headline reads: "Women over 16 all over Ireland can now travel to Belfast for termination." "Termination". It sounds almost as chilling and sinister as the way the Nazis referred to killing Jews as "Special Treatment".

• dickmac | Oct 11, 2012, 09:39 PM EDT

  I made a comment and it is NOT recorded ! May I ask WHY.

• Nicoletta | Oct 11, 2012, 09:31 PM EDT

  Keep Ireland, north and south, free of the scourge of abortion.

• jetsnoone | Oct 11, 2012, 06:23 PM EDT

  Some here blast pedophile priests, and rightly so,but will the same people blast the murdering doctors who kill these babies? Not in a million years, and that my Irish friends is typical of the liberals we have been dealing with in America for many years now....the liberals will give the killing doctors respect. The hypocrisy, astounding.

• weeknocky | Oct 11, 2012, 05:11 PM EDT

  How nice - now you don't have to travel to a different country to kill your child.

• JessNiLeacai | Oct 11, 2012, 04:49 PM EDT

  THOUSANDS of Irish women travel to Britain yearly to have abortions. Please anyone opposing this get off your soap boxes and high horses and stop blinding yourselves to the fact that this is happening. This is obviously a service that is needed on this island, otherwise it would not have been brought here in the first place. It makes the hardship that these women are going through an easier. We all have our own ethics and moral codes but to deny someone the right to choose is disgusting. There are women ending their lives on a regular basis because they cannot abort due to various reasons and these women have mental issues and sexual diseases. My cousin and friend are morticians and tell me the horrific stories that they experience on a daily basis due to the lack of support and such clinics. You want to talk of murder? My aunt died from carrying a child while having cancer and both her and the child died because she could not receive treatment. It is absolutely appalling that anyone would say that abortion is not a sometimes necessary option!!

• Bocktherobber | Oct 11, 2012, 04:27 PM EDT

  durtymurphy -- Belfast was always part of Ireland. The argument is about who governs it, not where it is.

• PiperMac52 | Oct 11, 2012, 04:07 PM EDT

  I would like to welcome Ireland to the world of debasement and moral relativism. Things can only get better from here...

• cillowen | Oct 11, 2012, 03:38 PM EDT

  with too many charlie lookers - it makes sense there

• Gearoid4 | Oct 11, 2012, 03:11 PM EDT

  Abortion is the deliberate taking of life of an innocent in the womb and no euphemism like "termination" or "medical intervention" will disguise that Whether the developing human life is 6, 12 or 28 weeks old, we are still taking about HUMAN life and not a neutral object which can be dehumanized. One cannot set arbitrary timelines like this and be credible-we are just taking about the different transitory phases in life as it developes(like every human being in history). One does not have to refer to religion, to feel the unnaturalness of a mother aborting her own child, for spurious reasons like birth control failure, clinical depression or because the child was inconvenient. But Religion is the best moral framework to challenge such evils as abortion which some want to make respectable as a "right"

• Gearoid4 | Oct 11, 2012, 03:10 PM EDT

  Abortion is the deliberate taking of life of an innocent in the womb and no euphemism like "termination" or "medical intervention" will disguise that Whether the developing human life is 6, 12 or 28 weeks old, we are still taking about HUMAN life and not a neutral object which be dehumanized. One cannot set arbitrary timelines like this and be credible-we are just taking about the different transitory phases in life as it developed(like every human being in history). One does not have to refer to religion, to feel the unnaturalness of a mother aborting her own child, for spurious reasons like birth control failure, clinical depression or because the child was inconvenient. But Religion is the best moral framework to challenge such evils as abortion which some want to make respectable as a "right".

• ballylanger | Oct 11, 2012, 03:05 PM EDT

  Take a look at our politicians and you will see the strongest case yet for abortion....

• citizen69 | Oct 11, 2012, 02:55 PM EDT

  Yet again Irish Central doesn't give you the full truth... The provision of a medical abortion at the clinic is ONLY available when the life of the pregnant woman is at immediate risk or if there is a long term or permanent risk to her physical or mental health. But don't let that fact get in the way when there is a chance for Irish Central to demonize a Unionist!

• durtymurphy | Oct 11, 2012, 01:02 PM EDT

  IRELAND gets abortion clinic, so now, Belfast IS part of Ireland? make up your mind. I just read the UVF abortion menu. All abortions $500. Fenian babies aborted free.

• irishrose524 | Oct 11, 2012, 12:55 PM EDT

  Yay!!! Btw, before you say it's murder, if you say the for religious reasons, if you actually crack open ur bible, you'll find God is Pro-Choice and doesn't consider someone a life until he or she takes his or her first breath, as in, the child is considered alive or a person at birth. Though I personally only have issue with Late-Term abortions, since by then it's a fully formed human being and viable. I know it doesn't matter to all Pro-Choicers, but it matters to me. Anyway abortions are necessary if you're raped or something and get pregnant, or if it might kill the mother, or if the baby will die anyway, which is alot worse then "murder" and also, back to religion, in the same multiple scriptures mentioning it, God even says abortion is okay in the case of rape or if she's pregnant with a man's child who is not her husband. I love God <3 I mean, if I were raped, I'd refuse to have that other man's child, I only want my husband's kids. Oh and did you know if you're raped and have his child, there's the possibility that the rapist might have parental rights, including visitations! Either way, I'm really glad for this, since I'd like to someday move to Ireland and if I am ever violated by some strange man, I would feel better knowing I wouldn't have to have his child.

• Springfield9 | Oct 11, 2012, 12:55 PM EDT

  I'd hate to come home from the Pub and be greeted by Dawn Purvis.

• eiriamach | Oct 11, 2012, 12:52 PM EDT

  Each year in the USA, there are more than 6 million unintended pregnancies, and women seek abortions in about 43 percent of them. A recent study by Dr. Jeffrey Peipert of Washington Univ, St. Louis, showed that when women are given their choice of contraceptives-- free-- they choose the most effective (and expensive) contraceptives AND the abortion rate falls dramatically: from 13.4--17 abortions per 1,000 St. Louis-area pregnancies to 4.4--7.5 abortions per 1,000 in the study. The overall abortion rate in the USA is about 20 per 1,000 pregnancies. That is the difference that education about contraception makes, and it shows the most important work that clinics like Dawn Purvis' Centre in Belfast can do for women and their families. If you oppose abortion, you should go all-out in support of this clinic, especially its work of making effective contraception available to all who need it.

• WoundedKnee | Oct 11, 2012, 12:51 PM EDT

  irishrose: You believe in God, but I suspect God doesn't believe in you!

• irishrose524 | Oct 11, 2012, 12:47 PM EDT

  I live in the States, and this is article is false. :-/ tbh, most people are just dropping religion in general, due to all the hate and bullshit. Myself included, I believe in God, but I am not of any specific Religion.

• WoundedKnee | Oct 11, 2012, 12:43 PM EDT

  Interesting that Ms Purvis has links with the UVF, a murder gang which killed hundreds of Catholics for the "crime" of being Catholics. Interesting also that this "clinic" is named for Marie Stopes, who was a racist and a nut. She even sent a book of her "poems" as a gift to Hitler!

• kilgara | Oct 11, 2012, 12:42 PM EDT

  It is quite apparent that the current population living in Ireland has lost its' way. Our island has been devastated by losing its' religous base,sexual abuse, massive , unsustainable immigration, greed , loss of tourism, economic catastrophy etc., etc. And now the ultimate abomination, killing our defenseless selves. The ONLY way to turn this around is through a massive revival of the only true Roman Catholic Faith. God Save Ireland!

• Springfield9 | Oct 11, 2012, 12:39 PM EDT

  Morality is a debating point in our world. Modern women want abortions. Some women need abortions for various reasons. of course there are some people (with us now) who should have been aborted. I am not "pro" anything. However, in this situation, someone is going to die, and it has been that way for 5000 years.

• paddyo | Oct 11, 2012, 12:35 PM EDT

  Older men with gray hair and baldness can be a big problem for poster "bunkerisland". Lets do a reverse abortion on them, or pass a law that they be put to sleep. Declare acting on your beliefs and free speech a one way right of the young and the ignorant.

• DD | Oct 11, 2012, 12:32 PM EDT

  pilib04 | Oct 11, 2012, 11:32 AM EDT 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. Romney reversed his position on Wednesday. Stay tuned!

• paddyo | Oct 11, 2012, 12:27 PM EDT

  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.

• KatieMurphy | Oct 11, 2012, 12:22 PM EDT

  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.

• Seanmor | Oct 11, 2012, 12:21 PM EDT

  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.

• bunkerisland | Oct 11, 2012, 12:10 PM EDT

  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.

• KatieMurphy | Oct 11, 2012, 12:07 PM EDT

  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.

• pilib04 | Oct 11, 2012, 11:32 AM EDT

  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.

• Helen Ferone | Oct 11, 2012, 11:24 AM EDT

  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.

• jamthecat | Oct 11, 2012, 11:21 AM EDT

  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.

• lakeisle | Oct 11, 2012, 11:06 AM EDT

  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

• like2tweet | Oct 11, 2012, 11:02 AM EDT

  not surprised legal on mainlaad for years why not the north

• uppinko | Oct 11, 2012, 11:01 AM EDT

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

• katieherk | Oct 11, 2012, 10:46 AM EDT

  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!

• mikehoulihan | Oct 11, 2012, 10:29 AM EDT

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

• GerryMaine | Oct 11, 2012, 10:25 AM EDT

  May God have mercy.

• louro | Oct 11, 2012, 10:12 AM EDT

  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.

• katiemac | Oct 11, 2012, 09:16 AM EDT

  Maria Stopes, as part of the Planned Parenthood family, represents the largest abortion provider in the world. And those abortion services will always be offered on a or-profit basis. That said helping people will never be the priority, since making money holds that position. What you will see next is pushing sex ed so they can encourage early sexual activity, followed by passing out inferior birth control, which assures there will be unwanted pregnancies to abort. This is the business model we have seen from Planned Parenthood in the US. And JimmieM is correct. PP has an annual dinner every January to celebrate their right to kill babies for profit. My advice to the NI pro-lifers, get a sonogram bus and park outside. A free ultrasound gives visual proof of life. God, save Ireland!

• katiemac | Oct 11, 2012, 09:15 AM EDT

  It has been reliably rumoured in Northern Ireland that bookings on coaches travelling up from Dublin to this clinic has more than quadrupled since this opening was announced, and is likely to increase in the foreseeable future.

• JimmieM | Oct 11, 2012, 08:50 AM EDT

  Well here in the United States it has become a cult celebrating the end of life, have a party.....Since we really don't know all that much about the origin of life.....perhaps the ending of life should be done a bit more regretfully?...or respectfully?... what ever .... something that would advance civilization?