#8th referendum

[anybody-want-cakes]

Ireland rn:

[burnitalldownism]

The thing a lot of people, even in Ireland, didn’t twig about the referendum on the 8th amendment is that it wasn’t pro-choice Vs. pro-life, it was Repeal the 8th Vs. Save the 8th.

And the 8th was fucking evil. There was no defence for it...at...all. And anyone who tried, including the fecking Yanks who flew over to stick their noses in, is is an evil sack of shit.

[lailedcat]

“History says, don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.” - Seamus Heaney. (The Cure at Troy, 1991)

Ireland, ya beaut. We did it.

[thismustbetheblog]

Lets get straight to the point. Imagine you, your sister, mother, friend, girlfriend, cousin, neighbour, any woman in your life is sick in hospital & doctors have a treatment that can save her but they tell you they can't perform the treatment because of a law. How would you feel? Pregnant women, their families and their friends could face that and will continue to unless we #voteyes

[wuh2k]

First final result in, and all numbers coming in around the country are showing a landslide. It’s looking like only a single constituency, Donegal, has voted no and the pro-life campaign have already conceded defeat. Voter turnout the highest in twenty years.

As it happens: Here are the results from each constituency in the Eighth Amendment referendum - http://jrnl.ie/4035220

[burnitalldownism]

We didn’t vote for abortion, we voted to get rid of the 8th.

We didn’t vote for abortion, we voted to allow legislation to be made, free of the 8th’s constraints.

“But it opened the door to legalising abortion!”

It sure did. But we didn’t vote to legislate for abortion. We voted so that it could be legislated for. That legislation could have been to maintain the ban on abortion in all but the most extreme circumstances. It’s not though. Our politicians are going to legislate for abortion without restrictions up to 12 weeks.

And the reason the Irish government is legalising abortion? We voted Yes and gave them the opportunity to legalise. But the reason they’re doing it? Pro-lifers. Pro-lifers are the reason why, the moment the shackles of the 8th were broken, our government jumped at the chance to legalise abortion.

Thirty five years. Thirty five years since pro-lifers introduced that abomination of an amendment in a childish lashback at the increasing secularisation of the country. Thirty five years since pro-lifers lied and threatened and scaremongered to pass that evil amendment.

Thirty five years they held the country hostage. Thirty five years they refused to compromise, to show compassion or common sense. Thirty five years they blocked any attempt to undo the sometimes lethal consequences of the 8th. Thirty five years of them accepting the deaths of women in service to some twisted ideology. Thirty five years of pro-lifers opposing legislation with zero purpose other than to prevent more women from dying because of the 8th. And this past month they continued to defend the 8th. They continued to defend the indefensible.

Pro-lifers had 35 years to shape legislation regarding termination of pregnancies, and they chose to defend the 8th instead, while women died. They marched with their rosaries and gruesome pictures to #SaveThe8th for years when there was no attempt being made to repeal it. Marches for Life pretending to be about saving the lives of the unborn when there was zero abortion, but not two minutes for those harmed and killed by their precious 8th.

Pro-lifers legalised abortion in Ireland. And now they want a seat at the table? They had a seat for 35 years and refused to take it while women died under the 8th. Now that we’ve made sure that won’t happen again they want to play nice?

[burnitalldownism]

Remember that Pro-Lifers

erected giant images of “aborted foetuses” (I’ll never believe them) outside of MATERNITY HOSPITALS in Ireland. BEFORE the referendum on the 8th Amendment. So no terminations were done in these places.

They set up huuuuge images of terminated foetuses in places where the only pregnant women coming or going were those arriving to deliver their wanted babies, or leaving with their newborns. Or...most horrendous of all; women arriving who were miscarrying, or leaving after suffering a miscarriage.

Love Both? They don’t care about women. They hate women. They wanted to traumatise women for no other reason than to shove their twisted ideooogy in people’s faces.

Everyone’s talking about how the Yes and No side need to come together after the referendum result. Fuck the pro-life side. 35 years of refusing to come together plus their abominable behaviour during the referendum campaign got them uninvited to the table and they’ve no one to blame but themselves.

Cry me a river they’re feeling left out now of a conversation they repeatedly refused to even entertain until they lost the vote.

[thismustbetheblog]