(10a) Abortion - pro and contra
Today (07/07/2012), I read an article in the Guardian entitled " Belfast protests put focus on Irish abortion crisis " about the absence of the right for abortion in Ireland, even when the foetus is disabled or has such a severe illness that the child will not survive after birth. Three women spoke about the cruelty of the system in their country that does not mind children are born disabled and dying. There will be protests on the streets, from pro-choice as well as from anti-abortion (so called pro-life) demonstrators. Ireland is even so backwards that it added in 1983 an amendment to its constitution claiming that each embryo after conception (thus even during the first weeks after conception) is officially an Irish citizen while even nature may decide to abort the child. Ireland is a Roman-Catholic country where its leaders listen to religious people and thus do not respect the wishes of other members of their own society. Firstly, I am against abortion as birth cont...