Turn back the clock 20191/8/2024 We might like to think that the bad old days of shame and guilt are behind us, but in fact modern Ireland shames women into abortion all the time: it’s just more likely to be couched as a ‘prudent’ or respectable appeal to avoid jeopardising a career or taking on unchosen obligations than a religious condemnation. In a pro-life culture, people wouldn’t be shamed or scorned for having children at the ‘wrong time’.In a pro-life culture, pregnant women would be treated as normal, equal, valuable members of society, neither defined nor restricted by the fact that they are pregnant.Pregnant women would not be pressured into putting up with all sorts of unscientific restrictions, motivated primarily by convenience for healthcare providers and institutions and/or by fear of litigation. In a pro-life culture, pregnancy would not be viewed as putting your entire life on hold for nine months.In a pro-life culture, doctors would not recommend to women that they travel to England for an abortion if their preborn child was diagnosed with a disability, such as Down’s Syndrome.In a pro-life culture, women wouldn’t think of having an unexpected child as a career-ending disaster, because the economic system would be set up to properly acknowledge the fact that 50% of the population can get pregnant, and that having and raising children is a normal part of life, not some kind of strange and inconvenient interruption.People would, simply, think of preborn children as children. ![]()
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