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Think the irrational abortion fundies making laws are restricted to the USA? Think again.

silmaril puts this very well:

Girl is four months pregnant. It is found out that the baby has anancephaly: Means that the baby will be born without a forebrain and very likely die within three days. Girl cannot get abortion, because in Ireland this is verboten except when the mother's life is threatened. Girl cannot go to Britain to get an abortion, because---and I am still not clear how---a health service executive made a request to the police to prevent her from leaving the country. The only way I can describe some of the mentality exhibited there is "FUBAR": "A psychiatrist appointed by the HSE said that the teenager was distraught at the diagnosis, but not suicidal, and therefore did not meet the criteria for being allowed a termination."

...So if she had threatened suicide, they would have let her not have five months more of hardship and trouble for the certainty of heartbreak in the end? Do these people, like, hear what they are saying?

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