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Post by annie on Nov 24, 2013 21:39:20 GMT
I am very proud of those Catholics who prayed for the protection of babies and their mothers outside our Houses of Parliament over the past year. The foul abuse and threats they suffer, both physically and in the media show up their critics for what they are. Satanic.
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 26, 2013 20:57:49 GMT
So am I proud of them; what I object to is the claim in Mr Murphy's article that such tactics are the ONLY legitimate pro-life tactics and that anyone who engages in any other tactics is betraying the pro-life cause. BTW note also that Satan has the ability to make himself appear like an angel of light, and that in the pro-life context the media will be doing the job for him. Pro=lifers have to think up ways to counter this and not assume that our righteousness will be self-evident and we need not think about presentation.
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 27, 2013 22:20:09 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 5, 2013 16:09:05 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 9, 2013 21:23:47 GMT
Eilis O'Hanlon had a surprisingly good review of Kitty Holland's book SAVITA in yesterday's SUNDAY INDEPENDENT. It may be partly motivated by the Sindo trying to get one up on the IRISH TIMES but it still points out a lot of questions that could have been asked but aren't. I see MAry Robinson, having avoided mentioning abortion in her memoirs, avoids mentioning it in her foreword to this book as well. Pray do tell why it is considered legitimate to repeatedly ask Gerry Adams about his connection to the IRA, but certain prominent figures are never asked their views on legalising abortion? Really, it's enough to make me want to start a new thread - IT DOESN'T SAY IN THE PAPERS www.independent.ie/entertainment/books-arts/a-missed-opportunity-to-shine-light-on-tragic-case-29817336.htmlEXTRACT Savita is a book which already feels obsolete. It was written during May and June, after the HSE report into her death was published but before the HIQA report which confirmed that this was not so much an abortion story as a tragedy about the mismanagement of sepsis. Never has a book so badly needed a second updated edition before the first edition even hits the shelves. The abortion angle is crucial to this question, because it was Holland's front page story for the Irish Times which did more than anything else to send out the message that this was a straightforward morality tale about a woman who died after being denied an abortion by backwoods Catholic moralists. Two pages are devoted to showing how the story whizzed around the world, as if it really matters when Caitlin Moran tweeted the news to her followers; but Holland is coyly defensive about criticism of the way the story was spun, despatching the prosecution case in a mere two paragraphs, the second of which reads in full: "'Woman denied a termination' dies in hospital,' it said. A woman had died in hospital; her husband said she had been denied a termination. The headline was correct in fact and in spirit." That's somewhat disingenuous. The headline in the first sentence clearly sought to imply a causal connection between the two events rather than the mere correlation which is outlined in the second. That's why the story had such an impact. "Rarely had a headline been so carefully worded," Holland insists, but doesn't seem to see that this is the very problem, or that her subsequent treatment of pro-life opinion in this book might suffer from the same blinkered certainty. Whilst admitting that "those against abortion to whom I spoke voiced sincere concerns that it was a human rights issue," she still bats them away with the words: "There was also a sense that they viewed abortion as something some women who just couldn't be bothered to be pregnant did." Is that really a fair assessment of their views? Here is where a book from Holland might have been revealing – in forensically exploring her thought process at the time and her considered view in hindsight, but she doesn't seem to want to go there. She's a curiously unreflective writer, more interested in lumpen narrative than analysis; in the who, what, when and where of a story rather than the how or why. Still, it's hard not to notice that one word is omitted entirely from the foreword to the book, written by former President Mary Robinson. That word is "abortion". Honestly asking why it isn't there, when a year earlier there was no word more widely in circulation, would have made a much more profound book. END
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 14, 2013 19:17:49 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 14, 2013 20:10:41 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 20, 2013 13:35:01 GMT
A number of members have resigned from the Socialist Party (i.e. Joe Higgins' Trotskyite party, formerly known as the Militant Tendency). They leave with a broadside exposing the dictatorial and authoritarian leadership methods which characterise that party, as they do all Leninist cults. (It is really remarkable that these people took so long to notice this.) The statement contains the following description of the pro-abortion group ROSA, fronted by Cllr Ruth Coppinger, which has been holding demonstrations in Dublin lately: EXTRACT ROSA Sectarianism The setting-up of the ‘for Reproductive rights, against Oppression, Sexism and Austerity (ROSA) campaign is another stark example of the Party’s sectarianism. The formation of ROSA occurred with little or no consultation with branch members and those in whose name it was to be set-up. It seems the party leadership felt they needed to capitalise on the growing strength of feeling around abortion rights and wanted a banner to attract people politicised by the death of Savita Halappanavar towards the SP. True to form ROSA was presented to the branches as a fait accompli; the party line decided by the NEC and the party full timers without any discussion as to why the SP was essentially preparing to operate primarily outside the Choice movement. In practice what that meant was that members, especially the small number of active female Comrades, were to curtail their efforts within ARC [Abortion Rights Campaign - HIB] and its affiliates and focus on ROSA activity. The development of choice campaigns into an integrated, broader and more politicised gender based campaigning group was, of course, far more desirable. If the SP wanted to further politicize ARC and other Choice campaigns it should have concentrated itself solely on this task even if the SP did not have as large a role or influence as is it had wished. END spiritofcontradiction.eu/guest-author/2013/12/19/socialist-party-resignation-statementCourtesy of politics.ie www.politics.ie/forum/united-left-alliance/219742-key-members-resign-socialist-party-destroys-their-cult-like-internal-culture-resignation-letter.html
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Post by shane on Dec 25, 2013 17:52:15 GMT
This is from RTE's 'Religious' programme category: Every year, thousands of Irish women travel to the UK for an abortion, but hardly anyone talks about it publicly. Now, one Irish woman is willing to do just that. When Danielle was in her late teens she accidentally became pregnant and travelled to England to have an abortion. It is a choice that has marked her life, but which she still does not regret.The Moment of Truth - Danielle | Sunday, 15th December, 2013 | RTÉ One | 10.30pm www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSMbaBwZLm8
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 25, 2013 20:35:34 GMT
Big surprise - Herodianity reigns at Montrose.
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 1, 2014 15:11:31 GMT
Dr James Reilly begins the New Year by signing the order bringing the infamous PLP Act into effect, even though the Medical Council have not yet agreed guidelines on its interpretation. This will make it much easier for pro-aborts to drive a coach and horses through that Act's supposed restrictions. Dr Reilly is often called Bottler because of his supposed resemblance to the schoolboy character impersonated by Brendan Grace. Some people have suggested Butcher might be more appropriate. Pro-lifers: organise, educate, agitate, pray - and never forget the infamy of 2013, and the infamies that preceded it. Never forget - analyse how it happened, and work to keep it from happening again. www.independent.ie/irish-news/abortion-law-comes-into-effect-without-guidelines-29879579.html
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Post by shane on Feb 7, 2014 19:37:40 GMT
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Post by shane on Feb 7, 2014 21:36:36 GMT
SF reject 'by a heavy vote' the motion for a free vote on abortion. Presumably Peadar Tóibín will be expelled again when he votes against Clare Daly's bill to allow abortion in cases of 'fatal foetal abnormalities'.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 16:45:04 GMT
SF reject 'by a heavy vote' the motion for a free vote on abortion. Presumably Peadar Tóibín will be expelled again when he votes against Clare Daly's bill to allow abortion in cases of 'fatal foetal abnormalities'. What is the point of this? If so many people voted against it then they are obviously for abortion. If most were against abortion then they wouldn't have voted this way. I'm surprised that it's legal for a party to control the votes of all its members. That doesn't make sense to me, though I'm not a big political man.
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 10, 2014 19:48:16 GMT
According to today's IRISH TIMES, the "women's soapbox" event in central Dublin on Saturday to mark International Women's Day by "reviving the spirit of the suffragettes" included a "pro-choice" campaigner calling for the repeal of the 8th Amendment and an abortion free-for-all on the grounds that "Bad laws make hard cases" and the State ought not to interfere in sensitive personal decisions. Here's what some real suffragettes thought on the subject: www.feministsforlife.org/herstory/
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