Northern Ireland under pressure after historic abortion vote

[Nirish guy]

Abortion rights obviously means fewer children born to Irish women. ........ The Irish people just need a referendum to decide which nationalities they would like to welcome. .

Your assumption above about giving people rights will result in fewer children is flawed as any mother who decided to proceed with an abortion simply went to England to have one ( or god forbid some back street illegal clinic), all that will change in that regard now is geography.

I'm assuming then that your actual main point was some comment or light joke about immigration perhaps ?

If so could I politely and very respectfully suggest that THIS topic is one that SGF just doesn't need to discuss / rip apart with jokes and jibes and it's best just to leave that entire topic to facebook to do that too, as no matter what ones personal thoughts on abortion etc it does still involve the taking of life ( depending on your view again I accept) and because of that then surely this is just a topic we can pass on here on this gay board and leave it to others to play around with elsewhere ? - again respectfully and just IMHO of course.

[bobsaigon2]

After submitting my initial post in this thread, I prepared the following in case there was any misunderstanding. But I suppose you are right, Nirish. Probably not something to be joked about, at least not by someone who does not have an Irish passport.

I intended my post to be satirical. We will not see any of the dire consequences in the fabric of Irish society that some clergy predicted before the vote. In fact, there will be no noticeable change in the lives of Irish citizens. The economy will not suffer, the birth rate will not plummet. The number of women choosing abortion will not be significantly greater now. Attendance at RC and C of I services will remain steady unless it diminishes for reasons not related to abortion. Life will go on. Pubs will survive, McDonalds will see no need to cancel their Happy Meals. The only change that will occur is that Irish women will now conveniently terminate a pregnancy that they, and not others, deem unwanted or dangerous to their health. That is as it should be.

[scottish-guy]

...any mother who decided to proceed with an abortion simply went to England to have one ...

...and paid for it as England will not treat them under the NHS!

Scotland however has been providing free NHS abortions to these Northern Irish women for some time (as has Wales)