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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising terms, [...] read our review » -
Stay out of Libya: counterinsurgency doesn’t work
A moment of some significance in journalism perhaps, as the New York Times reviews the current talked about book, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West. The author is no bleeding heart but a former assistant Defense Secretary from the Reagan era who stomped his way round the Afghan [...] read our review »
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Spare us a phoney row about racism, we’ve got enough on
A silly media row about racism just had to figure in the riots’ post mortem. Was the Tudor history expert David Starkey racist on Newsnight when he said: The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion. And black and white, boy and girl, operate in [...] read our review »
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Comment on Should NI women have NHS access to abortion..?
on 24 October 2008 at 5:05 pm
You see, that is what the anti-abortinistas come down to! They want to preseve non-viable life, but exhort me to eat rat poison!! So, what a typically lop sided argument they make.
A foetus is not a child. As a theatre nurse, I assisted at innumerable procedures where the remaining products of conception were removed from the womb. I was a conscientious objector to abortion in those unelightened days!!
I challenge anyone to try and take home a 6-week old foetus and try and rear it up as a child. It is nothing but a blob of bloody material. OK, maybe some googly eyes, but not viable.
If we could look after the chidlren we have we would be doing well. Abortion should be a matter of choice for a woman who doesnt want to carry a foetus to term, in order for it then to be classed as a child.
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Comment on Should NI women have NHS access to abortion..?
on 24 October 2008 at 4:57 pm
I havent gone away you know. I have been living about 3 different lives with all sorts of free-lance stuff as well as my proper job, so I havent really being blogging on Slugger as often as I might.
I conbtributed to an interview with the Irish Times on this subject last week, and I have little time for the kind of aarguments that men are making on this subject.
In my mind it is clear cut. Men have traditionally exerted control over most aspects of women’s lives. This is one area where emotive and non-scientific arguemts are being used to make women too guitly to control their own reproductive rights.
In my view, you are either for or against the abortion of a non-viable foetus. None of this rape or incest nonsense. It is either right or wrong, and in my mind it is clearly right that I can choose when or when not to incubate a baby in my womb, which belongs to me.
But as we live in an androcentric society with male rules, women will never get that last peice of the puzzle, that ultimate piece of control over their own bodies that should not be withheld
Shame.
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