You may have heard that a woman in Ireland died after being refused an abortion.
That sentence alone should be enough for some teeth gritting, but the woman did want the baby, she only gave up on it when it became clear that it wasn’t going to come out alive. The fact that the woman was neither Irish nor Catholic didn’t seem to matter to the staff attending to her who claimed that because ‘[Ireland] is a Catholic country’, they could do nothing to help her while the heart of the foetus was still beating.
Four words: First, do no harm.
There is someone there, asking for your help, someone who is alive, and you can’t do anything because a baby you’re almost certain won’t live is clinging to life in a temporary environment? This is beyond a simple abortion issue, this is choosing death over life because of a conviction that shouldn’t apply to this situation.
When the options are: everyone dies, or someone lives; the answer should be pretty damn obvious, and I spend a disproportionate amount of time worrying about the fact that there are people who would refuse to save a life in that situation, based on laws that were written long before this particular facet of that issue could even be specualated about.
Even some of the most stubborn critics of abortion make exceptions in the case of danger to the mother, and no one should be hired in a position where they can make life or death decisions when they cannot choose life due to ideological constraints. Switch them out with someone else if need be, but don’t let them choose whether someone should live or die because they can’t bring themselves to let her live.
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Continuing on from yesterday, as I said I would despite the fact I could have been lazy and just posted the three pages of introduction to a story I wrote yesterday, *pause for breath* we return to shelley the republican, a blog that I’m still hoping is satire. However, the stuff referenced on it is still worth commenting on if so, especially this meaty little nugget.
So ‘the freedom blog’ recently linked to a few videos in a context that really made my blood boil, hopefully they’ll instigate the same response in you. And if not? Well, then you should probably re-evaluate your position on what the left really is.
So this next video goes along with this caption: ‘Jesus told us to love your enemy as you do yourself. He taught us to pray for them, to forgive them. We Christians are the salt and light of the earth, but it is certainly no easy task to be a good Christians when confronted with a massive wall of hate coming from the left and radical minorities.’
So someone tell me how these radical minorities are holding a left wing view please. Seriously. Despite the lack of ‘love thy neighbour’ in here I don’t really see how this is any more anti-Christian than Shelley the republican herself. It’s hard to try and say these people are immoral with the way she talks about the left, atheists and homosexuals as if they deserve what these extremists think white people deserve.
Now let me get on to item number two.
‘Liberals are just like Hitler. They love to kill the weakest members of society: the Unborn. We must take action against the culture of death but it all begins with knowing the fact about this cruel and brutal act of aborting a baby.
See how you can change the mind of your liberals neighbor with this powerful movie.
Kind regards,
Shelley N. Goodman’
Need I say anything on this one? The premise is already ridiculous on its face. Yet again, she pronounces hate for anyone who doesn’t agree with her and then preaches to others for being cruel. Something tells me she hasn’t thought a hell of a lot about the actual logistics of the issue.
Now tell me that this is a fair representation of the abortion issue.
There’s always room for debate on this, there is no fine line between life and non life.
The victims of the holocaust were beyond a shadow of a doubt alive.
I don’t want to have to go into the reasons why this is wrong, it should be self-evident by now, but I happily will if anyone seriously believes that abortion is equal to the murder of millions of jews, black people, homosexuals, gypsies, communists, Jehovah’s witnesses and disabled people. All in the name of pure bigotry for Christ’s sake.
There are much more complex reasons for the issue at hand, this does not compare in the slightest.
And if I hear someone comparing this to natural selection I will personally hunt them down and shove the origin of species up their arse.
