62 Comments

• EphraimKibbey | Aug 29, 2012, 10:58 PM EDT

  Actually I apologize!

• EphraimKibbey | Aug 29, 2012, 10:56 PM EDT

  @BrianO - I'm glad to know it wasn't you! I apoliigize for jumping to conclusions.

• BrianO | Aug 29, 2012, 12:26 PM EDT

  @rehand32, Dumbasses are dangerous or sometimes humorous,

• redhand32 | Aug 29, 2012, 08:36 AM EDT

  It's really amazing that even now there are intellectual eunuchs like Geroid4 who dictate to rape victims the "simple" process of just putting the child up for adoption ? But, this will not ususally happen anyway we are comforted because some "pro-preborn life only" Dr. Frankenstein assures all women that there is this mysterious hormonal or other natural process that will prevent rape victims from becoming pregnant. That's really good to hear because all those African women in conflict zones brutally raped by government troops and rengade crazed "child" soldiers, can now take increased comfort by "science" that all those other rape victims with children were merely statistical flukes. Or, perhaps they like being raped, or enticed the act. Usually dumbasses are benign. In this instance, as with the Tea Bag movement dumbasses are dangerous !

• BrianO | Aug 28, 2012, 06:45 PM EDT

  If you refer to the article "I love and thank the enlightened posters" the answer is yes, bashing Ireland no. As to logging on properly that is a hit and miss proposition as I log in.

• EphraimKibbey | Aug 28, 2012, 03:21 PM EDT

  So, BrianO, you're saying it WAS you?

• BrianO | Aug 28, 2012, 01:00 PM EDT

  Dear condescending liberal puke, please level your drivel on your prepaid campaign hacks. PS. I've read your take on Irish vacations, it gives us tourist a bad name.

• EphraimKibbey | Aug 27, 2012, 09:13 PM EDT

  @hollabackgurl - becareful, if you post your comment after one has been posted without a by line, this site steals your by line and attaches it to the deficient one. BRIANO, was that you? Was that you bashing Ireland in an earlier article? You really should learn to log-on properly you know!

• peterson | Aug 26, 2012, 03:40 PM EDT

  Alisaann,yeer head is in the sand !!

• eiriamach | Aug 25, 2012, 05:31 PM EDT

  Gearoid4 thinks the right of a woman to terminate a pregnancy forced on her by a rapist is "spurious"! We know there are medications that delay ovulation in rape victims so that they cannot become pregnant, but Gearoid objects to the Affordable Care Act making them available to victims--it violates HIS "religious liberty." Ignoring the evidence of medical science, he even demonizes emergency contraceptives as abortifacients! He would close off every possibility of women exercising free will; he would use the law to coerce women into becoming slaves of sexual predators. That means stripping women of humanity, the perfect situation for Gearoid's "expert counseling" to tell pregnant rape victims what to do! No, there's only one "expert" on what a woman pregnant by rape should do, the expert appointed by natural law-- the pregnant woman herself! How can men who so extravagantly defend the "right" of a fertilized ovum have such contempt for the rights, the free will, and the humanity of women?

• HBDuncan | Aug 25, 2012, 04:55 PM EDT

  I have a friend who her mother tried to abort her and she survived. She grew up to forgive her and now is an advocate for pro-life. Oh, by the way her mother was raped and then tried to have her aborted. She is a fine young lady serving God and Country and is thankful to be alive and to have survived her near holocaust. If we had been aborted we wouldn't be able to even have this conversation now, would we? If we do not value the sanctity of human life then we are truly lost!

• Gearoid4 | Aug 25, 2012, 04:04 PM EDT

  Why compound the criminal act of rape by abortion, which is a horrendous practice, given a spurious legitimacy under "rights". This is a very difficult and emotive issue, and I recognize that there are no clean cut answers to it. We should respect the rights of all the victims in this, namely the woman and the child that results from it. One should consider the option of expert counselling on this, with the door left open for adoption services to step in, if the pregnant woman does not want to bring up the child.

• hollabackgurl | Aug 25, 2012, 09:54 AM EDT

  Well see Maggipoo, we actually still remember who got us into this economic mess with two unnecessary wars and a casino culture on Wall Street - Dubya. Member him?

• hollabackgurl | Aug 25, 2012, 08:26 AM EDT

  I love and thank the enlightened posters who rail against fox news. They think themselves to be to be tolerant and well read, but presented with an opposing opinion scream for said opinion to be demeaned. they scientific terms like "stupid" or "faux" how can you debate with arguments like these. So as the dirtiest presidential season in years drags on don't listen to opposing opinion, don't pay attention to the worst economic period in years, don't pay attention to the highest rates of unemployment, don't pay attention in the rise of the muslim brotherhood oversees, don't pay attention to the rise in wacko shootings at home, don't pay attention to $4.oo a gallon gas, because to do that might make you question the current leadership.

• alisaann | Aug 25, 2012, 02:51 AM EDT

  these GOP people ARE GANGROUS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE....THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY WOMEN'S RIGHTS, BAN CIVIL UNIONS AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE....what's next?....return blacks to SLAVERY?....wake up people, before it's too late. alisa

• hollabackgurl | Aug 24, 2012, 11:19 PM EDT

  Mairint you are conflating two completely separate issues the better to demagogue them, aren't you? Gay men don't generally have abortions. You also describe gay rights as 'rights' putting them in scare quotes. I have seen many protestors outside family planning clinics but I have NEVER seen protestors outside pro-abortion ban meetings. Where was your hotel and this mob - you neglected to say? Any incidence of violence is regrettable, but murderous attacks on LGBT people by far outstrip attacks on hate groups that want to discriminate against them in law.

• mairint | Aug 24, 2012, 09:26 PM EDT

  Cahir, why are you so pro abortion - killing of defenseless babies- in the name of 'reproductive rights'. Do you mean unproductive rights? I remember attending a pro-life / pro-family conference in Toronto. The pro-aborts and pro-homosexual 'rights' folk hired buses to ship the rent-a-mob out to our hotel. We had to have the police swat team on roof and on horseback (shields over horses faces)in order to safely attend the conference. The safety of families with small children, elderly, doctors, nuns, etc. from the pro-abort rabble is not rare. This has been repeated in Montreal(police car turned over and church defaced), Calgary, Vancouver. I suppose if you support the killing of babies you are capable of anything. Recent example the shooting of a security officer in the Family Research Council by Floyd Lee Corkins II, a volunteer at homosexual LGBT office a few weeks ago. IC, esp. Cahir O'Doherty, will avoid telling us that truthful side of the news.

• Frosty38 | Aug 24, 2012, 08:23 PM EDT

  I don;t know who watched the NITWIT today saying the Pres was not a USA citizen. Do they they think that he was carried in the luggage. He is around the other nitwit with the Hair Piece

• borefield | Aug 24, 2012, 07:24 PM EDT

  Cahir, who are you going to vote for President in Nov? You are so left you could really throw the election without trying.

• EphraimKibbey | Aug 24, 2012, 06:16 PM EDT

  Most of the posters below prove the title: INCONVENIENT Truth. They have spent way too long in the darkness of the Fox New Channel and the light of the real world hurts their eyes. The reason that the rest of the media speaks differently than Fox is that the rest of the media is filled with journalists who write the facts. Fox is "FUN" news and just says the stuff it thinks that its audience wants to hear according to Roger Ailes. Akin's theory about women's ability to fight off a rapist's sperm came to him from one of Romneys 2008 surrogates, Dr. Willke of Cincinnati, Ohio but it was actually the law in Europe in the middle ages. That law code states that if the woman becomes pregnant then the intercourse was not rape. Thankfully science has come a long way since the middle ages - we actually no longer bleed people either. The GOP has become the STUPID Party by espousing the myths of the science-disbelievers. Now they are pushing the idea that a zygote is a human being to eliminate many forms of contraception.

• PhlutiePhan | Aug 24, 2012, 06:07 PM EDT

  Paul Ryan surely is way to the right. Look at reality! Obama is a radical marxist on the left just like your hero Gerry Adams.

• Scrivner | Aug 24, 2012, 05:12 PM EDT

  Finnaegan, wake up! There is a more secretive candidate and he's sitting in the White House right now...except when he's travelling around gathering $35,000 donations from those 1%'ers who backed him last time. He promised an open and transparent administration...except for releasing his birth certificate, school records (did he apply as a "foreign student" to gain some unwarranted benefits?) or answer questions on his travelling to countries that, at that time, were on the restricted list?). Comparred to this, R & R are a breath of fresh air!

• cahalfinbarr | Aug 24, 2012, 04:59 PM EDT

  Maybe I am very stupid, but I dont see what abortion has to do with left or right wing. Surely it is a moral matter strictly for one's conscience and has nothing to do with politics. "Liberals" who demand that everyone who aspires to being a democrat must agree with their moral values are surely as intolerant, illiberal and totalitarian as any rightwing republican. As such they do a grave injustice to the underprivileged and the fight for justice and peace. Dangerous right wing demagogues should be challenged on their lying propaganda,unjust policies, warmongering and unfair treatment of those less privileged than themselves.

• garbo55 | Aug 24, 2012, 03:36 PM EDT

  I agree that victims of rape should have the option of abortion, however woman who want an abortion simply because a child would be an inconvenience at that time of their life I don't agree with, they have other means of birth control and if they don't use them to bad. You don't want kids have your tubes tied pure and simple.

• Finnegan _J | Aug 24, 2012, 03:31 PM EDT

  As Cahir stated, the views that Todd Akin expressed are deeply rooted in the Republican platform and have been for many years. Mike Huckabee blasted the Republican party for not supporting Akin and Romney has said that reporters are not allowed to question him about Todd Akin or abortion! He can't be serious, I have never seen a candidate as secretive as Romney.

• jamthecat | Aug 24, 2012, 03:22 PM EDT

  R&R want to wipe out 200 years of progress in the US. You only need to read the GOP platform and look at what legislation and programs they have actively supported in the past to see that. Anyone who thinks these men want to protect Social Security or Medicare, or that they give a ding-dong about helping anyone but their rich buddies is deliberately ignoring reality. Though I suppose it is possible only self-deluded, self-destructive fools are willing to accept Romney's and Ryan's lies, and then will battle those of us who see the men for what they are, hoping to obscure the fact that R&R are the true destroyers of Democracy.

• JOCSurf007 | Aug 24, 2012, 02:59 PM EDT

  This article is way off the mark. Having sympathy for the unborn is not radical. Nor is keeping marriage between a man and a women. Gays can call their unions something else. That is not pro gay or gay bashing. While I do not agree that women should be denied the right to an abortion if they are raped. I believe that it is better to bear the child than to kill it. The alternative to what Mr. O'Doherty is critical of.....the liberal, eugenics, anything goes culture......represents lowering the expectation of mankind's ability to deal with accountability for each individual's actions and behavior. Too many labels assigned to the parties involved produces unworthy discussion.

• hollabackgurl | Aug 24, 2012, 02:25 PM EDT

  For Paul Ryan and for most GOP Congressmen rape and incest are just unfortunate methods of conception. Learto make lemonade out of lemons ladies.

• hollabackgurl | Aug 24, 2012, 02:21 PM EDT

  Yes Romney did say that ColeenMcVeety. I found the link on LifeSite.com. You should research your candidates before you vote for - or indeed comment on - them.

• ColleenMcVeety | Aug 24, 2012, 02:11 PM EDT

  GuinnessGrrl, I agree and that is what he stated just recently as well. The liberal spin was that he is going to set out to do it (overturn) but in reality was just stating that he would like to see the judges overturn it and then leave it up to the states. This is how over 60% of the country feels. The WAR ON WOMEN, has been manufactured by the now administrations people who are going over the top with anything they can think of to try to keep Obama in. The gap between women voters for Obama or Romney is closing fast. I knew it would as women are not stupid!

• eiriamach | Aug 24, 2012, 01:50 PM EDT

  There are as many contradictions between conservative postings here as between Romney/Ryan's recent statements and their records. BrianO writes, "The stigma of one's life ending due to an out of wedlock pregnancy has changed." But then katiemac complains, "Women giving birth out of wedlock are actually rewarded by our welfare system which further erodes the family structures, especially in minorities." Can conservatives ever get together on their vision for our shared society? As for katiemac's assumption about race and the downfall of our society, Child Trends Research reports that between 1970 and 1988, the "non-marital birth rate among black women declined by almost one-quarter" while the non-marital birth rate among white women "more than doubled" during the same 18 years. Also, white women cohabiting with men had the "greatest increase in non-marital births," which reached 50 percent in the 1990s. Almost 40 percent of all women giving birth outside marriage cohabit with their babies' fathers. katiemac can find these statistics in a 2001 publication "Births Outside of Marriage: Perceptions vs Reality." Contact with social science can help us understand trends.

• GuinnessGrrl | Aug 24, 2012, 01:46 PM EDT

  You can't be a follower of Ayn Rand & be Catholic (or any other religion). Ayn Rand was an atheist and her philosophy of rational self-interest runs afoul of the Judea-Christian values of charity and taking care of others.

• francisquinn | Aug 24, 2012, 01:45 PM EDT

  I find no differenc in reading your columns and reading the Radical NYSLives, Wash Post, LA Times.....and Provda....

• pilib04 | Aug 24, 2012, 01:25 PM EDT

  Why do I keep seeing the words "religious right?" Why not call it what it is, the Catholic Right!

• eiriamach | Aug 24, 2012, 01:14 PM EDT

  Writing in the Ny Times, Paul Krugman noted that Paul Ryan takes his social "philosophy" and his fiscal policy from the novels of Ayn Rand. Then he asked a question that should generate some re-thinking: "And, beyond that, consider the fact that Mr. Ryan is considered the modern G.O.P.’s big thinker. What does it say about the party when its intellectual leader evidently gets his ideas largely from deeply unrealistic fantasy novels?"

• mayoman | Aug 24, 2012, 01:12 PM EDT

  Doherty's article is factually correct, and so I have to wonder why the right-wingers here are so upset? And I also wonder why they always feel its necessary to drag President Obama into every debate? How is Irish Central biased if it correctly reports the legislative actions taken by Paul Ryan? How it is slanting anything by reporting what Mr. Ryan and Congressman Todd Akin actually said? Do the righties posting here not recognize that the proposed GOP platform is clearly an all-out assault on the reproductive rights of all American women? Has Mitt Romney not said repeatedly that he intends to defund WIC (a program that provides nutritional food to predominately poor women, infants and children), as well as defunding, and thus crippling Planned Parenthood; an organization that advises and performs many useful medical services for women and families, (e.g., PAP smears, cervical exams, counseling, and birth control distribution), of which abortion is only one service? Who are Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney to tell a woman what she can, or cannot do, with her own body? Paul Ryan has long praised the writings and philosphy of Ayn Rand; a woman that has preached that government must be small and unintrusive, and should never hamper or obstruct the enjoyment of individual freedom. Yet Ryan and the GOP platform is all about Big Government. They not only want to hamper a woman's reproductive rights, they want to take them away entirely. Ryan is steadfastly opposed to a woman's right to have an abortion for any reason, and he would also like to see an end to gay marriage. Additionally he has stated that he would like to see a return to the failed and regressive policies of DADT. Ryan wants small government when it suits his myopic needs, and large government when he wants to accomplish other goals. Romney will embrace anything that will get him elected President.

• GuinnessGrrl | Aug 24, 2012, 01:07 PM EDT

  ColleenMcVeety: “I'd like to see Roe v. Wade overturned and allow the states and the elected representatives of the people, and the people themselves, have the ability to put in place pro-life legislation.” Mitt Romney 5 June 2007, Republican Presidential Debate (Manchester, New Hampshire)

• eiriamach | Aug 24, 2012, 01:07 PM EDT

  Reported by the NY Times, Oct. 8, 2011: Romney promised in his speech to the Values Voter Summit, "And I will nominate judges who know the difference between personal opinion and law. It is long past time for the Supreme Court to return the issue of abortion back to the states by overturning Roe v. Wade.” Is that clear enough for you, Colleen McVeety? Romney promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would overturn the 1973 abortion decision. Check it out; don't just take my word for it. National news sources reported on the speech.

• handsome68 | Aug 24, 2012, 12:52 PM EDT

  Youse liberal omadhauns love to polarize the electorate in the USA. Why not try writing constructive, helpful articles, that might help bring Americans together in a common cause? Or would that break your delicate brain and hands?

• paddyRanger | Aug 24, 2012, 12:32 PM EDT

  More left wing garbage from Cahir O'Doherty, are you supposed to be a journalist or just an ass kisser for Obama !!

• ColleenMcVeety | Aug 24, 2012, 12:16 PM EDT

  No he did not hollabackgurl. He has said again and again that he would NOT ever look to overturn Roe v, Wade. Not good to write things on here that are not true. You did not hear it AS HE DID NOT SAY IT. Shame on you.

• hollabackgurl | Aug 24, 2012, 12:09 PM EDT

  In a Monday night interview with ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer,” likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney again repeated his call for overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that has resulted in more than 55 million abortions. (You should research your candidates before you vote for them ColleenMcVeety).

• ColleenMcVeety | Aug 24, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT

  hollabackgurl, Please show us your resources. The fact is....the words you wrote about Romney and the the Supreme Court future nominations was never stated by Romney or anyone supporting him. Ever. The ignorant senator's remark. That was one man's extreme view....PERIOD. Do you see any Conservatives standing behind him? Best to move along on that one and stop listening to Liberal talking points only.

• TheOldPerfessor | Aug 24, 2012, 11:28 AM EDT

  From Rupert's mouth to your ears. I see they're hear with their message of hate and their dearth of facts. Scream LIBERAL all you want, the truth is the truth, whether you choose to believe it or not. If Romney were to win and put somebody with a tin foil hat on the court, abortions will still happen. The genteel people in Fairfield County will arrange little weekend visits to Canada for their daughters. And so it goes.

• hollabackgurl | Aug 24, 2012, 11:21 AM EDT

  This article takes issue with people who talk about 'legitimate' and 'forcible' rape. If that's not meant to divide what is?

• FastEddy | Aug 24, 2012, 11:15 AM EDT

  As a last resort, the demofascists are now resorting to character assassination in the debates. ... Not that O'Bummer took the right to life and pro-choice sides in 2008, too. ... One thing is sure, government can never legislate morality and in this case, government will never, ever be able to take women's rights away, no matter who is elected. Read the US Constitution ...

• BrianO | Aug 24, 2012, 11:08 AM EDT

  These articles are meant to divide, To argue the extreme and paint reasonable people as looney, old tactic, works on occasion though.

• Phaenius | Aug 24, 2012, 11:06 AM EDT

  While I lament that it is a waste of good Irish flesh to find them "liberal" and sexually disoriented, I am very tickled to find among the readers and commenters those of my own “ilk” or kith and kin of my own mind ALSO searching for a site that breaths Irish clean and free. But on any who, this site finds its worth in knowing the mind of perversity so as to gage them by living true while avoiding the word traps that fools set to confound the righteous…and we can find names among the confused masses to pray for. After all we all started out as ignorant and fools before truth set us free.

• hollabackgurl | Aug 24, 2012, 11:06 AM EDT

  Romney has promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would help overturn Roe v. Wade, does that make his position on abortion clear to you?

• Pathfindr | Aug 24, 2012, 10:59 AM EDT

  I hear all of this talk about a woman's right to "choose," but isn't the prime human right the right to life? Shouldn't that trump choice?

• bignevermo | Aug 24, 2012, 10:56 AM EDT

  Nailed it!! Religious right aint right...no empathy for those less fortunate or anyone different from them.

• Eschetic | Aug 24, 2012, 10:56 AM EDT

  Isn't it odd how Romney/Ryan apologists scream that simple FACTUAL reporting of past voting records is biased "liberalism", while wildly distorted and factually "creative" (i.e. lying) postings suggesting their opponents are monsters is somehow OK? We're going to see a LOT of this during the next 2 months as my party tries to steal this election the way they did in 2000 and 2004 (giving us 8 years of the worst presidential administration in U.S. history). Voters and impartial observers need to exercise their minds and CHECK the "facts" offered to them by both sides. Many of us learned as far back as the Nixon administration that so called "Liberals" tend to be lovers - "Conservatives" tend to be crooks (what MOST of us would regard as ethics are foreign to the latter as applied to themselves). It shows in their campaign styles.

• Fran Connor | Aug 24, 2012, 10:46 AM EDT

  Can anyone out there suggest a non-partisan Irish website that I could sign up for?

• pounder | Aug 24, 2012, 10:27 AM EDT

  Not very fair and balanced on this site.I guess the Messiah is untouchable.

• MommaOBoys | Aug 24, 2012, 10:21 AM EDT

  Those of you posting should know by now that the Irish Voice is the most BIASED Irish American newspaper on the stands today. They wouldn't know a bi-partisan stance if it came up and bit them on the arse. It can't even be considered a newspaper because it doesn't print news, only opinion pieces and it seems that everyone who works for Niall O'Dowd has the same liberal minded bias as he.

• ColleenMcVeety | Aug 24, 2012, 10:18 AM EDT

  GaelMcC, Glad you brought that point up. Obama voted while Senator that if a baby should survive a VERY late term abortion (yes, it happens) that the child is wrapped in a cloth and left to die. Anyone who does not believe this...please look it up. This is who and what Obama is. Obama has nothing to run on..NOTHING.. so he and his followers figure that the only way he can win is by division. He is the worst thing that ever happened to this country. First..if you disagree with his policy...you are a racist. Then...if you do not think late term abortion is okay, you are against women's rights. I could go on and on....but only those who are blinded by people such as he, continue to see NOTHING. Mr. O' Doherty, you are one of one of those people.

• BrianO | Aug 24, 2012, 10:17 AM EDT

  Inconvienient truth in title reminds me of Al Gore. I love Cahir, the desperation to tie any perceived scandal to the republicans is priceless. Romney is married to his first wife since his college days, trying to make him out to be pro rapist is comedic. There is a difference between the candidates, Romney/Ryan believe that an unborn baby represents a living being and such has rights, Obama believes (since it is his only vote in the affirmative during his senate years) that even when a baby survives an abortion it can be terminated. Two different stances, the left has had a hard time with abortion as late because most people don't want to snuff out life and have been working on alternatives for women who find themselves in desperate situations. The stigma of ones life ending due to an out of wedlock pregnancy has changed.

• BGAndersson | Aug 24, 2012, 10:14 AM EDT

  Is this reporting or editorializing? You're an ass. I notice no reporting on the radical left-wing agenda being implemented by the Obama Administration. Which is why, despite your dopey assessment as an Irishman attempting to " report " on the American political scene, that the Romney/Ryan ticket will be victorious in November. Stay tuned.

• JimmieM | Aug 24, 2012, 10:05 AM EDT

  I think it so..? what strange that you people, living beings, consider pro-life radical? and so by declare anti-life as normal?

• GaelMcC | Aug 24, 2012, 10:00 AM EDT

  Why is this publication so anti Romney and so Pro Obama? You mean to tell me Obama's partial birth abortion - as in the wee lambie is half birthed then killed by doctor - is not radical?

• ColleenMcVeety | Aug 24, 2012, 09:58 AM EDT

  Mr. O'Doherty, May I first make a request? Could you not print your last name, as it is MY family name and what you have just written is baseless and filled with downright lies. The Romney/Ryan team as NEVER stated that they wanted to change any abortion laws. Your first major lie. Planned Parenthood....that now does gender based abortions...in other words, waits till the baby is 20 to 22 weeks old...then if by chance they wanted a boy and it is a girl....then it is aborted. NO...we do not feel that any taxpayers should pay for their funding. Let them survive on donors. Trust me..that is only the beginning of what goes on there. So Mr. O'Doherty...if you think it is just fine to wait 22 weeks, to kill a little girl...YOU ARE PATHETIC. Please drop the last name...you are a disgrace. This is not about women's rights, they already have them with no chance of losing them, but let us always have the level of intelligence to know right from wrong. Get it????

• Frosty38 | Aug 24, 2012, 09:51 AM EDT

  I see the Irishman Dolan siding with a follow MICK but not appropriate for him to do that from his position in the church