Religious nutcase doctors refuse abortion to miscarrying woman who then dies

[psychocandy]

Ireland, as a nation, should hang its head in shame after this happened. Appalling.

[cailin maith]

Ireland, as a nation, should hang its head in shame after this happened. Appalling.

Yeah, cos the Irish people, every single one of them, think it was right.

Cretin.

[Gibbon]

However the fu<ked up law in a backwards country which allows people to die because of lies peddled for the past 2000 years needs to be addressed.

Ignorant idiot. When the anti abortion stance taken by the church 2000 years ago it was forward thinking given that most families would only raise one female, the rest left to die after birth and women were FORCED to have abortions. The literal interpretation of a moral value stupidly turned into law is the fu<k up.

[psychocandy]

Yeah, cos the Irish people, every single one of them, think it was right.

Cretin.

Did I say that?

No. But Ireland as a nation has these laws. Laws made by the politicians who were given the power by the people of Ireland.

[minestrone]

The problem was with the misdiagnosis, anyway carry on.

[speling bee]

No. But Ireland as a nation has these laws. Laws made by the politicians who were given the power by the people of Ireland.

Yes, because that's exactly how representative democracy works.

[teclo]

They mentioned on the radio the other day that one of the nurses told them "this is a catholic country" as a reason for not doing it... **** religion..

[minestrone]

Well until the doctors and nurses are allowed to give their version of events we have a very one sided view of the matter given by a medical lay person.

[fullyautomatix]

They mentioned on the radio the other day that one of the nurses told them "this is a catholic country" as a reason for not doing it... **** religion..

Exactly. That is the main point. The doctors knew that the foetus had no hope of surviving. But since it had a heartbeat they invoked catholic laws to deny the mother a chance to survive. It is of course possible they had no clue what they were doing and did not realise that in doing what they did they actually endangered the life of the mother.

Amazed that NF and Dhoog have popped up and suggested that they were abiding by some law to kill that woman.

[NotAllThere]

The doctors knew that the foetus had no hope of surviving.

Did they? Is that absolutely established?

Is it absolutely clear that if she'd had the abortion, as she requested, she'd be alive today?