Ireland ready to concede women are living people and not just breeders

Ireland is getting ready to allow abortion in certain cases where the mother’s life is in danger. So they are really, really, sorry for killing a woman for the sake of a dying fetus, and would love if the rest of the world would forget about it already. Jezebel has a piece written by Katie J.M. Baker on the whole thing.

Dr. James Reilly, the Irish health minister told The Telegraph, “…we will clarify in legislation and regulation what is available by way of treatment to a woman when a pregnancy gives rise to a threat to a woman’s life. We also will clarify what is legal for the professionals who must provide that care while at all times taking full account of the equal rights to life of the unborn child.”

Apparently, the Supreme Court rule that abortions were ok when the woman’s life was at risk back in 1992, but the government never got around to creating a law to that effect. Digest that for a moment. So now they are repealing legislation that makes abortion a criminal act and instituting regulations for when a mother’s life is at risk. The new law will comply with the Supreme Court decision and the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights from two years ago. Yeah, so there were at least two court decisions Ireland never bothered to get behind.

Risk of suicide also counts as danger to the mother, which is mind blowing because a woman in Indiana was arrest for trying to kill herself when she was pregnant citing that she tried to kill her unborn child. Wrap your mind around that. In Ireland, the Supreme Court decisions 20 years ago overturned an injunction that prevented a 14 year old girl from having an abortion in Britain. The girl was suicidal after being raped and then prevented from obtaining an abortion. But this just confused everyone and no legislation was drafted.

The Catholics are in a tizzy that the government would legalize some abortions even though they were supposed to 20 years ago. Catholic Cardinal Sean Brady and the archbishops of Dublin, Cashel, and Tuam said: “The unavoidable choice that now faces all out public representatives is: will I choose to defend and vindicate the equal right to life of a mother and the child in her womb in all circumstances, or will I choose to license the direct and intentional killing of the innocent baby in the womb?”

So, politicians may make it ok for limited reproductive choice, but remember the women are second to their unborn children. Innocence prevails over the guilty. Ironically, the Catholics believe we are born into sin with Original Sin so I’m confused. If a pregnant woman receives reconciliation and then aborts the fetus wouldn’t she be without sin or of lesser sin than the fetus? Then she could be forgiven again. I think I’m onto something here. This is how sex abuse works in the church, right?

The bishop of Kilmore Leo O’Reilly was a bit more dramatic claiming the slippery slope argument, “to a culture of death.” When it is the woman it is ok though. Naturally, some politicians (the Fine Gael Party specifically) are worried about the suicide clause. Because you know, the women folk will threaten suicide to have abortions.

I don’t suppose we could treat women like people who are valuable as people instead of just breeders? In 2012, why are we just now allowing women to obtain abortions when their lives are at risk? How do they not have a rape exemption? It will be a cold day in hell before a pregnant me goes to Ireland.