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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, built [...] read our review » -
Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland
I share many of the concerns of Andy Pollak, whose recent post ‘My Response to the Slugger Begrudgers’ zeroed in on the ‘relentless flow of negativity’ of some Slugger commentators. Pollak’s post was largely concerned with the medium of the blog. Indeed, I think the anonymity of the online world encourages extreme discourse and allows [...] read our review »
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“You can see Newton’s mind at work…”
To add to the open access treasure trove at the Royal Society, Cambridge University Library is putting online some of its collection of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. We have called the first phase of our work on the Cambridge Digital Library the Foundations Project, which runs from mid-2010 to mid-2013 and has been made possible [...] 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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