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I have to say for all the bollocks that we have to put up with at the moment re Brexit at least we don't have to worry about reproductive justice - well at least in 3 of the 4 UK countries - NI is the bible belt of northern Europe...
mahina
(17,640 posts)Do you think there will be a referendum PT 2?
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)I think the government will collapse
There will be a general election
There will no over all winner and so nothing will get through Parliament....
I am hoping we stay in by accident at this point
mahina
(17,640 posts)It just seems leaving is a ticket downhill. But I dont know anything about life there.
We have a park, Thomas Square, named after a British person who protected the Kingdom of Hawaiis sovereignty. There was a branch of our alii families here who were Anglophiles. I wish those alii had won.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulet_affair_(1843)
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)When is the question, not if.
stopdiggin
(11,292 posts)As long as you are living inside my body ...
I know that sounds very black and white (and it is) .. but as you point out, a line and a distinction must be drawn at some point. As much as I struggle with the issue, I can't find a clear line that makes any more ethical, moral or legal sense. Can you?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)To the best of my knowledge, both current law and science do not say that being in or out of a mothers body is what determines whether someone is a person. I do know a near- or full-term baby before a cesarean section isnt a tissue mass and a human being after.
But if I recollect, discussing abortion may be against the TOS. So we should probably break this off and agree were not going to change minds anyway.
Brawndo
(535 posts)Vinca
(50,258 posts)capital punishment as a penalty. Guess they don't get irony either.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)That could spell irony never mind understand it