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[theweaselking]

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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[http://users.livejournal.com/_jeremiad/]

File that under F for Fucked Up.

No matter what your stance is on the right to choose or the right to life, forcing a woman to carry what is effectively a dead baby is unethical and immoral.

I'm sorry. I've been watching your journal for awhile (was attracted to all the cool photos). This is the first time I've read something from you that produced such a visceral reaction of abject disgust from me.

[unknownpoltroon.livejournal.com]

What is even more fun, is on the off chance that this kid is able to breathe cause hes got enough of a spinal cord, wanna bet that due to the publicity, the Drs. wont be able to do the right thing and let it die shortly after birth? That they'll have a brainless fucking piece of meat that will suck up resources and cause pain for the next 30 years.