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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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[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Huh. I didn't know that the EU had laws, as such, that related to this sort of thing.

I knew that there were policies in place--that's what all the fuss about whether Turkey gets admitted or not is about, right?--but actual laws, I'm surprised about. I am surprised that Spain, Portugal, Italy *or* Ireland joined under those conditions.

[kali-kali.livejournal.com]

The EU has laws on everything. There was even a time that they were considering legislating the low-cutness of female waitstaff's shirts, on the premise that if they wore too little clothing outside while serving outside in the sun, they could get skin cancer or something.