Northern Ireland women risk jail after public admission they took abortion pills
Student says she will go to prison in fight against amendment
Published Sunday, March 10, 2013, 9:55 AM
Updated Sunday, March 10, 2013, 9:55 AM
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Women gather at a pro-choice rally
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“We want to emphasise that medical abortions happen in Northern Ireland on a daily basis but without any medical support or supervision.
“We were delighted when Marie Stopes came to Belfast as it meant that women who are unwell can access a doctor to supervise what we have done or helped others to do without medical help.
“And therefore have a right to a legal abortion here.”
The Observer report concludes that the Alliance For Choice pro-abortion group claims the Maginness-Girvan amendment, which will be debated at Stormont this Tuesday, will not only shut down Marie Stopes’s abortion services but the entire debate.
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eiriamach | Mar 11, 2013, 08:30 AM EDT
That second line should read "pro-life" zealots. The pro-choice movement has its zealots too, no doubt, but the pro-life movement gathers and publishes the information used in assassinations and clinic bombings.
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eiriamach | Mar 10, 2013, 09:49 PM EDT
These women certainly are brave, in a way that I do not understand. American women know that if they put their names on anything that says they've had abortions, pro-choice zealots will publish and circulate the names, sometimes along with photos and home addresses and phone numbers and work places. They'll harass the women and their families relentlessly. They'll label the women criminals if there is a law against the drug they took; they'll label them "murderers," law or no law. These activities by "pro-life" groups have helped fanatics to murder several doctors who worked at women's health clinics in the USA. Beware of the tactics of "pro-life" groups. They can kill you. Keep abortion tied to the right to privacy. We do not need any more martyrs.
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darao | Mar 10, 2013, 08:39 PM EDT
Brave women! Standing up for the rights of women to choose how to manage their reproductive choices is a good thing. The state should get out of the control of abortions and provide it as a medical service in support of those women who choose it.
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eiriamach | Mar 10, 2013, 03:57 PM EDT
Patrick Counihan, there is no "pro-abortion group." There are many groups and individuals who believe that abortion must be an available service within any government-managed health care system. But no one, not the most zealous pro-choice advocate I've known or ever heard of, is "pro-abortion." Your right-fringe political bias has skewed your reporting. You need to be watching out for that kind of slip!
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Seanmor | Mar 10, 2013, 02:21 PM EDT
Every map I have seen clearly shows that the 'Ulster' state is in Ireland- not across the sea in Britain. Yes, he Wee Six got an exemption from G.B.s abortion laws of the 1970s because Unionist and Nationalist politicians sough such an exemption. The article does NOT indicate the ages of the abortd babies, but in the early '60s when 6 European nuns of child-bearing age were raped in the Congo, their Rev. Mother gaveeach a "morning-afterpls" tin order to prevent any pregnancy - and I FULLY approve of her actions.
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