Anyone familiar with Ireland? How are the no abortion laws working?
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No, Ireland is a predominantly Catholic country.  Of course Catholics are against abortion, but cannot offer any ideas as to what we should do with all the unwanted children.  There are not enough foster homes or orphanages to take care of them.
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I have given it some thought because my ex-husband had pushed me to have an abortion (after we were married and had other children).  For myself, I could not choose abortion.  But I don't think that the laws are in effect to support (collecting child support is a 50-50 chance in this country) or protect children.\n\nAnd, up to a point, abortion is not much different than the pill or other contraceptive methods.  You still create an egg, that egg can still be fertilized.  It is just "aborted" early enough that you don't think of it that way.\n\nI think if you forbade people (with laws) from having abortions, we would just go back to a time of self-abortions, or abortions in dirty clinics with illegal people (mainly not doctors) performing them and a lot of young girls would lose their lives.\n\nSo given those options, I choose to allow abortion to continue legally.\n\nBut, like you, I sit on the fence, because there are a lot of consequences we don't usually think about.
455773
The short answer is that we don't know.  The number of illegal abortions took a nosedive after Roe v Wade, of course, but there is no tracking mechanism for illegal abortions since there is no reporting mechanism.
1015787
Americans as a whole do not think this way.  There is much controversy in our country about this issue.  It is currently legal in most (I believe) states to have an abortion, but conservative religious zealots are always trying to change the law.  Obviously, I am pro-women's rights (not pro-abortion and not pro-life, but believe that since it's the woman's responsibility it ultimately needs to be her choice.)
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Abortion is immorally wrong and legally protected. That's life...err...death. You make a good point though.\n\nTHE PROMLEM though, is that such a law could easily be used by deadbeat dads to refuse child support.
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16,000 per year divided by 365.  It's much more violent than most countries.\n\nYeah, it would include abortions, IF fetuses are counted in the Census figures!
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The UK is once again debating over its abortion laws. It is allowed in this country currently up 24 weeks providing 2 doctors give their consent that to not abort would be of detrrement to the womans physical or mental health, that it would harm the child or their family. \nseems about right to me.
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I can help on the national level, but am not sure about local candidates.  It can be hard to figure this out, particularly since many of them have nothing about abortion on their campaign websites.  Here's a helpful link - it takes you right to all the candidates running for national offices in NY this year.  Click on each person and you get an alphabetized list of the issues and the candidate's record, which starts with abortion and includes gay marriage under 'civil rights.'  Or, click on an issue and get a list of all the candidates positions on that issue.  I'm not sure which district you're in in NYC, otherwise I'd just give you the names.\n\nGood luck.
729180
The privacy laws are a thinly disguised method of hiding abortion statistics, so nobody will know the true scale of all the death and destruction that's going on in this country.\n\nYour issue is simply another example of a way this wrong headed law injures society.
190219
Well lets see abortion was illegal and women still had them. Drugs are illegal and people still do them.Kids arent suppose to smoke or drink but they still do. So telling teenagers not to have sex and make babies will not work.
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The answer here is very easy. When you talk about the legalisation of abortion in a country, you are not talking about whether or not abortion (or life) is a good thing or a bad thing. That is a question of ethics and/or religious belief. It is not a question of law.\n\nWhether or not to have an abortion is a choice. People who believe that abortion should be legal believe that women should have that choice. People who believe it should be a crime thus want to take away that element of choice. By defiition then, they are anti-choice.\n\nI have heard a lot of 'pro-life' people call the opposition 'anti-life'. They are specifically trying to bring the legal question back into the religious agenda, and they are overgeneralising.\n\nIt is possible to be pro-life, ethically, and pro-choice, legally.
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I've heard this one before, but it was done with a man being connected to another accidentally after getting drunk and going to the wrong area of a hospital. It kind of puts things in a different light. \nPersonally I could never have an abortion and if someone asked me for advice I would have to urge them against it, but ultimately it is their life and body, so it is their life.
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I don't know the answer to this particular question, but for information on all aspects of abortion, see:\n\nhttp://Abort73.com
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Umm let's see, if there was no sex, don't you think nobody will have kids or anything? I don't know what kind of question your are asking. But if it is having sex with kids or minors, I am very sure that they have a law like that. If you are a Briton, look at the legislation that led to the law.
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I am sorry to hear about your predicament. However, The Republic of Ireland has different laws and regulations regarding divorce than the United Kingdom, being a seperate nation and independent from the UK. That said, 5 years does seem like a very long time to have to wait.
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Cant help but suggest that you also ask this question in "Travel" sub section "Ireland".....a lot of Irish people are there and may be of help to you.
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Ireland used to have a law that once a child was born in Ireland, the child and mother and father became Irish citizens. But what happened was that a lot of poor foreign nationals (I'm not saying this being racist, its just the truth) i.e, the nigerians, the romianians and a few other select nationality's, were coming over illegally when they were nearly at their full pregnancy term, having the babies in Ireland and claiming citizenship and then not working, so the Goverenment was paying for their house and the  raising of child etc. Im not saying that every foreign national did this, but a lot did and the Irish goverenment had to bring in legislation to stop this.Because of a select few, it has messed it up for other foreign nationals.