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Post by maolsheachlann on Sept 28, 2020 9:04:34 GMT
This article analyses the deep radicalism of the late Justice Ginsburg's view of abortion as a constitutional right, based on the view that abortion is necessary for women to be truly equal with men. The depressing thing is that our current abortion legislation is based pretty much on the same assumption. (The referendum was run on a three-card trick, with the hard cases being highlighted on one hand and on the other the "women can't be free unless they have full self-ownership based on abortion at will" argument being emphasised to stir up a sense of anger at perceived liferisk and being ordered around.) BTW the "women can't be free..." bit is a fairly close paraphrase of a sentence from one of the Glories of Abortion history books which has appeared since the referendum. All that is lacking is a declaration that there is an actual constitutional right to abortion, and I wouldn't put it past our social and political elites to arrange that in a few years' time. stream.org/did-justice-ginsberg-endorse-eugenics-was-she-a-racist/Many people have pointed out how feeble the "full self-ownership of one's body" argument is in the era of Covid-- whatever you think of the restrictions.
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Post by annie on Sept 28, 2020 12:29:09 GMT
This article analyses the deep radicalism of the late Justice Ginsburg's view of abortion as a constitutional right, based on the view that abortion is necessary for women to be truly equal with men. The depressing thing is that our current abortion legislation is based pretty much on the same assumption. (The referendum was run on a three-card trick, with the hard cases being highlighted on one hand and on the other the "women can't be free unless they have full self-ownership based on abortion at will" argument being emphasised to stir up a sense of anger at perceived liferisk and being ordered around.) BTW the "women can't be free..." bit is a fairly close paraphrase of a sentence from one of the Glories of Abortion history books which has appeared since the referendum. All that is lacking is a declaration that there is an actual constitutional right to abortion, and I wouldn't put it past our social and political elites to arrange that in a few years' time. stream.org/did-justice-ginsberg-endorse-eugenics-was-she-a-racist/It takes humility to recognize one's errors. Slavery was once seen as acceptable treatment of a subject people, perhaps also as a substitute for prison by offenders but it was a lesser penalty than killing the unwanted outright. Good article here on the late Judge Ginsburg's error. mercatornet.com/justice-ginsburgs-brilliant-career-marred-by-monumental-error/66901/
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Post by hibernicus on Oct 5, 2020 22:30:06 GMT
Where Peter Is gives a hostile view of the origins of Lifesite, claiming it derives from extremist and unsophisticated elements in the Canadian pro-life movement opposed to any element of gradualism, and complaining that the Canadian Catholic bishops are soft on abortion: wherepeteris.com/lifesitenews-the-origin-story/Lifesite, in complaining that a Canadian Catholic publication sanitises the role of the recently-deceased Catholic former Justice Minister and Prime Minister John Turner in legalising abortion in Canada, claims with a good deal of documentation that the Canadian Catholic bishops recklessly accepted Turner's assurance that his legislation (which led to a vast increase in abortions) was the best that could be done in the light of previous court decisions: www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-publication-sanitizes-former-canadian-prime-minister-turners-involvement-in-legalizing-abortion These resources are provided for information only - make up your own mind. Myself, I think that Lifesite News has problematic and kooky elements, but I'm afraid that when I read Where Peter Is reassuring readers that those so unrespectable extremists have no legitimate cause for discontent, the phrase "court prophets" comes to mind. The pro-life movement here has similar divisions, I'm afraid, and unless they are brought into the open and addressed I fear they will end upmaking the current execrable position worse.
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 11, 2020 20:03:06 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 19, 2020 22:39:54 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 15, 2020 18:15:38 GMT
A grim little piece, written from a basically secular perspective, discussing the complete dominance of pro-abortionism in "respectable" British opinion and its implications. For Britain, I am sorry to say, read "Ireland" as well. The movers and shakers, I suspect, were basically pro-abortion for at least 2 decades before the Repeal referendum, although they only came out into the open after the Savita Halappanavar tragedy in 2012: thecritic.co.uk/should-the-virgin-mary-have-had-an-abortion/
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 29, 2020 17:53:41 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 8, 2021 21:16:17 GMT
An obituary for John Rankin, an eccentric US pro-lifer who believed in staying out of politics and advancing the cause through debate and reason. The obituarist points out that though his faith in converting pro-aborts through reasoned argument was naive he did (a) recognise the danger of allowing the pro-life movement to become captive to its ostensible political allies (b) see that we need to get a sense of of how pro-lifers appear to people on the other side and adjust our message and behaviour accordingly, of course without compromising basic principles. catholicherald.co.uk/ch/a-warning-about-politics-the-pro-life-leadership-did-not-heed/
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 11, 2021 0:21:14 GMT
Alan Kelly's Labour Party calls for a ban on pro-life protests anywhere near abortuaries (through so-called "exclusion zones"), the suppression of "rogue crisis pregnancy agencies" (i.e. those who won't bow the knee to Moloch) and for the prescription of at-home abortion pills through telemedicine. Lest anyone think that the Labour Party nowadays is an unimportant rump, bear in mind that the other left parties on past form will not be slow to take this up, and that the big parties, where not actively evil, have all the backbone of a Portguese man-o'-war jellyfish and let the smaller parties dictate policy on "unimportant" social issues while the big ones divvy up the fat jobs which are all they really care about. The public gave the politicians a blank cheque when they voted to repeal the Pro-Life Amendment, and the full consequencs are still unravelling. BTW when Leo Varadkar told the impromptu Nuremberg Rally in Dublin Castle Yard after the referendum result that this meant a break with the evil past "nomore shame... no more stigma" he meant amongst other things that it will become unacceptable to say that abortion is wrong, and to tell the truth will be considered an act of violence based on "shame and stigma". Wait and see, and I fear we won't have to wait long. gript.ie/labour-party-seeks-to-liberalise-already-extreme-abortion-law-and-clamp-down-on-pro-life-protest/
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Post by hibernicus on Apr 20, 2021 23:59:02 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on May 5, 2021 0:08:43 GMT
A writer in the British magazine THE CRITIC points out that the NIO is interfering blatantly in a devolved matter by insisting that the health service in NI must be directly involved in abortions, and they will override the NI Executive to ensure this. There would be an outcry if this involved any other devolved assembly, or any other issue. This shows how dominant the Abortion is Sacred brigade have become at Westminster - of course our lot are nearly as bad. There is increasing pressure on the Unionists to change on this to show they are good little modern secular Molochites like certain other politicians. The UUP have already given considerable ground. thecritic.co.uk/the-hypocrisy-of-the-northern-ireland-office/
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Post by hibernicus on May 31, 2021 22:03:57 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 18, 2021 22:43:34 GMT
Some weeks ago, Breda O'Brien in her Saturday column in the IRISH TIMES appealed for pro-lifers and pro-choicers to agree at least on anaesthetising unborn babies while they are being killed. I'm afraid the phrase "whistle a jig to a milestone" comes to mind, as does "Overton Window" and "the lamb bleats for mercy when it's already in the wolf's gullet". I'm in twominds about this strategy, as pursued before and after Moloch's Plebiscite. On one level it seems to be preaching to hearts of stone and tacitly accepting the indefensible while pleading for mitigation. On the other, it does reflect awareness of just how weak the pro-life position was years before the Butchers' Charter, and a desire to try to have some impact even at the margin. What do you think?
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 30, 2021 18:31:46 GMT
ALL the Irish MEPS voted for an extremely pro-abortion report in the European Parliament, describing abortion as a human right and inseparable from democracy. Unfortunately, they seem to reflect Irish public opinion - a recent Euro-wide poll found 60% of Irish respondents favoured abortion on demand. Even allowing for how polls can be skewed, I suspect this means something. Like the outcome of Moloch's Plebiscite, I can suggest four sources: (1) Wilful blindness, because facing up to what abortion really is would entail taking action and possibly getting into trouble. Better to go back to sleepand leave the dirty work to the TDs and the professionals. (2) The view that the church is so discredited by its own crimes and blunders that the Truly Modern Person should support whatever it opposes. (3) Nothing Must Interfere With The Sexual Revolution. (4) How dare anyone - except the media influencers - tell me what to do!
If you live in Dublin Bay South, cast a pro-life protest vote on the 8th July by-election and transfer as you please. Put the most obnoxious pro-aborts, of whom there is, alas, no shortage - at the very bottom of your list. Speaking personally, I wouldn't even cast a protest vote for Justin Barrett, for reasons familiar to everyone who has followed his career or read his manifesto THE NATIONAL WAY FORWARD.
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jun 30, 2021 20:40:51 GMT
ALL the Irish MEPS voted for an extremely pro-abortion report in the European Parliament, describing abortion as a human right and inseparable from democracy. Unfortunately, they seem to reflect Irish public opinion - a recent Euro-wide poll found 60% of Irish respondents favoured abortion on demand. Even allowing for how polls can be skewed, I suspect this means something. Like the outcome of Moloch's Plebiscite, I can suggest four sources: (1) Wilful blindness, because facing up to what abortion really is would entail taking action and possibly getting into trouble. Better to go back to sleepand leave the dirty work to the TDs and the professionals. (2) The view that the church is so discredited by its own crimes and blunders that the Truly Modern Person should support whatever it opposes. (3) Nothing Must Interfere With The Sexual Revolution. (4) How dare anyone - except the media influencers - tell me what to do! If you live in Dublin Bay South, cast a pro-life protest vote on the 8th July by-election and transfer as you please. Put the most obnoxious pro-aborts, of whom there is, alas, no shortage - at the very bottom of your list. Speaking personally, I wouldn't even cast a protest vote for Justin Barrett, for reasons familiar to everyone who has followed his career or read his manifesto THE NATIONAL WAY FORWARD. Can you elucidate those reasons? I don't buy into the National Party's brand of nativism but I'm not sure why Barrett is regarded with such exaggerated horror. He's arrogant and seems rather hypocritical when it comes to divorce, but hardly on a par with the legions of pro-abortion anti-family politicians in the mainstream parties. I haven't read his former manifesto, but I've listened to his speeches for the NP and he's sound on many issues. His party is never going to achieve more than a foothold in the Dáil if that. I think it would be all to the good if any or all of the socially conservative parties had a good showing in elections.
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