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by wkat4242 899 days ago
Wow I thought Ireland was changing now, they even voted for gay marriage. But the Catholicism still reigns strong there :(

A few years ago a hospital even let a woman with a miscarriage die because they didn't want to intervene.
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zajio1am 899 days ago
This has probably nothing with catholicism and everything with bureaucracy-satety-ism.
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disgruntledphd2 899 days ago
> A few years ago a hospital even let a woman with a miscarriage die because they didn't want to intervene.

They were legally unable to intervene, without risking prosecution. Yes, it was entirely insane. And that case was a major reason that the constitution was changed to prevent this ever happening again.

This is 100% nothing to do with Catholicism, just standard moral hand wringing around what might happen to kids.

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wkat4242 899 days ago
> They were legally unable to intervene, without risking prosecution.

They should have done so anyway, obviously. There's no chance they would have been prosecuted for it. Not with all the uproar. I walked in the candlelight demonstrations too.

> And that case was a major reason that the constitution was changed to prevent this ever happening again.

Only after a referendum which the church opposed, and it's still one of the most restrictive countries in terms of abortion.

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disgruntledphd2 899 days ago
> They should have done so anyway, obviously. There's no chance they would have been prosecuted for it. Not with all the uproar. I walked in the candlelight demonstrations too.

Can you give me some evidence that you're willing to destroy your career in a country on a point of principle?

Like, I completely agree that they should have done that, but that's pretty easy for me to say, it wouldn't be my career on the line.

> Only after a referendum which the church opposed, and it's still one of the most restrictive countries in terms of abortion.

Look man, my wife had a missed miscarraige under the old rules, and I completely agree, but at least that shit won't happen anymore. I did query this with our fertility consultant about what would happen if we were past 12 weeks and got a seriously bad genetic test result, and he just shrugged and said we could go to England, which was pretty disappointing, post referendum.

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goodluckchuck 899 days ago
Why intervene and save one life when to could stand idly by and make a political point that saves thousands? /s
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