For Lefties too Stubborn to Quit
You know, whatever peoples views on the issue, in the context of a state where the notion that abortion is anywhere near likely to be introduced, with an assist from the EU or not, is absolute nonsense you do have to wonder about this sort of activity…
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An interesting list of sponsors.
We have Youth Defence.
We have Coir, otherwise known as Youth Defence.
We have “Families First”, otherwise known as Youth Defence.
We have Ultrasound, otherwise knows as… you’ve guessed it.
We have Precious Life, who are Youth Defence’s “sister group” in the North.
I know nothing about the Life Institute, but the rest of the list of sponsors essentially consist of Youth Defence, Youth Defence, Youth Defence, Youth Defence and Youth Defence. I’m surprised that they haven’t thrown in some of the other fronts while they are at it. Why does the Mother and Child Campaign refuse to endorse this rally for instance? Enquiring minds demand to know.
We on the left would never use front names to bolster our numbers. McCann on the organising committee of the Duke Street March in October 1968 is good. He says one of the sponsoring society’s existed only in its representative’s head.
If this is the registered address of the “Life Institute”, then guess what – Youth Defence again!
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Ultrasound heh, so that where Tiny and co ended up. Stay Young a cracker of a song.
Ultrasound , that is a cool sounding name, hip and appealing to the youth.
AK 47 and a sick bag please
Killian, my thoughts exactly. And not just Stay Young… Same Band… etc, etc…
Just for the hell of it, I colated a list of all organizations – or should I say, different names for the same org – working from 60a Capel St:
* Youth Defence
* Coir
* Lisbon Treaty Information Campaign
* Pro-Life Alliance
* Family First Ireland
* Mother and Child Campaign
* Truth TV
* Embryo Research
* No to Nice Campaign
Some of them even share the same phone number.
“Embryo Research”? Surely some mistake on YD’s behalf eh?
“It’s so important to show our opposition to abortion” – and the only reason they give to do so is because powerful people (scaremongering language much?) in the EU are threatening our [already entirely archaic] abortion laws? Please. Give us a decent reason to remain in the Dark Ages and I, eh, won’t consider it at all.
What about Human Life International? I don’t see them mentioned either!
re your last sentence rosemarymaccabe,
Yeah, where are HLI? It’s an outrage!
WBS’s, correct, observation that there isn’t a hope of abortion being introduced in this state shows how complete a victory Coir, or more properly the ancestors of Coir, have won.
In the eighties Maria Stack, then a Vice President of Fine Gael through her position as a big wheel in Young Fine Gael, said at an FG Ard Fheis that abortion should be acceptable in some circumstances. There was a big furore about this and FG quickly distanced themselves from her but could you imagine it happening now?
It’s striking that even left wing politicians tend to preface any comment about stem cell research or associated issues by pointing out that they are utterly anti-abortion as if this is the final frontier in Irish life which cannot be crossed. Yet abortion was legalised in Italy in 1978, despite a church campaign, and might well have remained a relatively non controversial issue here had it not been for the PLAC people who capitalised on the cowardice of politicians to force through an amendment which hardly anyone wanted back in 1983.
Ancient history I know but I would imagine that the womens rights campaigners of the seventies who fought so hard for family planning and divorce legislation would be surprised to find that almost forty years on abortion in Ireland remains unthinkable.
There’s a good small book out at the moment, a bit unfocussed at times but full of interesting documentary material, Ireland’s Hidden Disapora by Ann Rossiter about the way the Irish womens movement in London supported women who had gone over there for abortions. That such a tramautic experience still involves a trip abroad seems kind of shameful to me. It’s no wonder Coir feel like marching.