Why not abdicate the responsibility to an unelected talking shop full of busybodies, reactionaries, fundamentalists, retirees, academics and people with nothing better to do with their time and ask them to come up with some ideas. We could call if a Citizens Assembly (although that's what a Parliament is so maybe some other name which doesn't give the impression of a democratic mandate would be better)... oh, wait, too late!Ah, the mood to have a baby....
Government haven't come up with any firm proposals an alternative to the 8th amendment, so no one knows yet what choices will be on offer.
I think the argument is that it has no place in the Constitution, which should be a document comprising guiding principles, not specific laws. I kind of agree with that idea. Give that I do find it ironic that some people who support such a view think we should have a Constitutional amendment about water.No matter what provision or none a person thinks there should be regarding abortion, "Repeal the 8th" is surely the shallowest campaign slogan ever. Apart from it horrible American twinge, it suggests repealing a constitutional amendment that was opposed by those most opposed to abortion and those most supportive at the time it was introduced.
Repealing the 8th amendment should only be considered when a new regime has been agreed on, whatever that might be. Either they want abortion covered by the 1861 Offences against the People Act or they just want to rant against something they disapprove of.
Why not abdicate the responsibility to an unelected talking shop full of busybodies, reactionaries, fundamentalists, retirees, academics and people with nothing better to do with their time and ask them to come up with some ideas. We could call if a Citizens Assembly (although that's what a Parliament is so maybe some other name which doesn't give the impression of a democratic mandate would be better)... oh, wait, too late!
I agree with that idea in general too, although I would view the right to life as a guiding principle. I don't really see any irony as that's not the argument of the repeal side. They just see the 8th, rightly, as a block to a liberal abortion regime.I think the argument is that it has no place in the Constitution, which should be a document comprising guiding principles, not specific laws. I kind of agree with that idea. Give that I do find it ironic that some people who support such a view think we should have a Constitutional amendment about water.
I don't accept that this is a religious issue; I'm an atheist and I have major reservation about abortion.
I also don't accept that this is a continuation of the agenda which saw us introduce marriage equality; the two issues are very different at every level.
fatal foetal abnormalities
People use that phrase but I don't think they know what it means.
http://thisismylife.ie/question-2/
Even the doctors?
That site though
I didn't say any such thing, but I would value qualified medical opinion over that of someone who chooses to hide behind European Data protection law to have their history hidden.
Do you not think life should be given a chance or just snuffed out because someone can't be bothered to look after what they have created?
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