The vast majority of congenitally deformed foetuses are spontaneously miscarried.
So what? You can't just brush the awkward and extreme cases under the carpet and ignore the fact the law makes it impossible for women to do
anything to fix the situation just because most of the time the problem fixes itself.
This is exactly the kind of stupid nonsense we no longer have to deal with and instead we can have sensible legislation to deal with the actual situations that actually happen that pregnant women actually have to deal with instead just doing what you're doing and shrugging your shoulders and doing nothing about it because most of the time it doesn't happen. Christ, what an attitude!
I presume that in your cousin's case, the deformity only became apparent once the pregnancy was quite advanced. In those cases, even if an abortion is carried out, there is still the heartbreak of having to to through an induced delivery, anyway.
You assume wrong.
There seems to be this idea that somehow the tragedy of a baby suffering from a congenital condition is the fault of 'sexism' which can be solved by abortion on demand.
Well, living in Ireland, and having listened to the arguments from both sides of the debate, I've never once come across this bizarre strawman of an argument from anyone except you. What on earth are you talking about?
Who ever claimed that congenital conditions were the fault of sexism? No-one ever blamed my cousins situation on anything other than rotten bad luck. A situation with no-one to blame for existing in the first place, but plenty of people to blame for because she couldn't have the situation quickly, safely and legally
Truth is, your cousin's situation was always going to be a very sad one.
The fact that sad situations are always going to exist is a rather pathetic and heartless excuse for enforcing an extremist set of laws that prevent anything from being done about the sad situation and just shrugging your shoulders and forcing the victim to put up with the situation and the suffering for months on end.
Forcing a woman to carry a non-viable foetus for months, to go through with the entire pregnancy and give birth to some pointless non-viable baby with extreme medical problems which nothing could be done for, which if gone to plan would and should have been a joyous occasion for her and her husband, to give birth to it, etc. just because 'it would have been sad anyway'. That's a genuinely cruel and callous attitude to have for people in that situation.
What she should have been allowed to do was to have the pregnancy terminated as soon as the foetus's medical condition was allowed, so she could get on with her life and plan and prepare for the family she wanted, instead being forced to endure the horrific situation she did.
How can you actually have such a casual attitude to defending these kind of situations? To force a woman to go through with an entire pregnancy carrying a brain-damaged thing inside her which will never survive after the pregnancy, on the basis that it mostly doesn't happen? Jesus Christ.
You can't allow these situations to just continue just because they're rare, or awkward to deal with, or generally sort themselves out, etc. When laws are unable to deal with the fringe cases and rare cases, we don't just shrug our shoulders and think that's just the way things are, instead of we change the law, we campaign to change the law, and we've done so successfully in Ireland, remove the extreme legal barriers to abortion to allowing for it to be replaced with sensible legislation for safe and legal termination of pregnancy, instead of the ******** that currently exists.
Good riddance to the 8th amendment.
