New poll finds strong support for option of abortion in certain cases in Ireland

1780 ... The complete subjection the peasantry were subjected to is hinted by a traveller through Ireland at the time who wrote "A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cottier dares to refuse to execute. ... A poor man would have his bones broken if he offered to lift a hand in his own defence . . . Landlords of consequence have assured me that many of their cottiers would think themselves honoured by having their wives and daughters sent for to the bed of their master."

Sorry, Eschetic, you are wrong. Any reputable biological text will tell you that life begins at conception when the egg is fused with the ovum and the full human genome is already inscribed in that little human being. In other words the DNA code has been already formed to direct the progress of that life through the various stages of maturity unless that progress is interrupted abruptly by surgical or chemical means i.e an abortion. You can call this "superstitious nonsense" if you want but it makes no difference to the biological facts. The Catholic Church correctly attributes an invaluable significance to every life that is conceived and views it as the plan of the Creator. Opinion polls are a poor decider of what is truth and at least the Church is there in defense of the weakest in our community who voiceless and totally innocent.

Repeat after me: "There is NO LIFE IN BEING until the ganglia of the brain come together at the end of the first trimester of a pregnancy." This is elementary science and USED to be the Church position - it was called "the quickening". All the superstitious nonsense and divisive hate mongering could be avoided if we could simply recognize and return to rational positions now supported by objective science. Clinging to positions with only the shallowest imagery as support is simple willful foolishness however emotionally tempting. Such bigotry is doomed to ultimate failure, as current Irish polling is making very clear.

to pope john 22nd "To John, pope-Donald O'Neyl, King of Ulster, together with the inferior kings and chiefs of that territory, and the whole Irish population It is a rule in the King of England's courts of justice in Ireland, that every man who is not of Irish extraction, may institute a judicial process of any kind, and that this power is forbidden to the Irish, whether clergy or laityreligious men and the bishops.

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If as too frequently happens, an Englishman murders an Irish, clerk or layman, the assassin is neither punished corporally, nor even fined; on the contrary, the more considerable the murdered person was amongst us, the more his muderer is excused, honoured, and rewarded by his countrymen-even by the religious men and the bishops.

flash gordon below must love pain and suffering. He's a true ignoramus.

I agree people should know there is a risk in most things in life, abortion will be abused as a get out of jail card.

Any decent woman would put the life of her baby over her own.