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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!tcdcs!maths.tcd.ie!thomas
- From: thomas@maths.tcd.ie (Thomas Bridge)
- Subject: Restrictions about pro-life meetings
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.153108.29048@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:31:08 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- I am shocked, amazed, horrified at the hypocrisy of certain elements of the
- Pro-Choice movement in Trinity College, Dublin.
-
- For those of you not in the know, Ireland has been in the middle of an abortion
- contraversy since January for various complicated reasons which I will not go
- into here.
-
- As a consequence, we are going ot have a referendum on November 26th to decide
- wether to change
- 1. The rules on abortion (should we maintain the status-quo, introduce limited
- abortion, or ban it all together (that will take another referundum as its not
- an option this time round)).
- 2. The right of women to travel abroad because under the law the courts can
- restrict this if they think the woman may have an abortion while abroad.
- 3. The right to supply abortion referral in Ireland (currently not available)
-
- Of course, the pro-choice section in Trinity want proposal three accepted on thegrounds that it restricts the "Freedom of Information".
-
- One of the pro-life supporting groups in the college spent last Monday morning
- putting up posters advertising a meeting of the group about abortion. A group
- or individual (presumably pro-choice) spent Monday afternoon tearing them down
- again. It can be argued that restricting abortion information is a form of
- censorship. But surely, under the same logic, the tearing down of pro-life
- posters is censorship, and therefore equally as much a denial of one's right
- to have complete Freedom of information.
-
- Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
-
- Thomas Bridge.
-
- 18 Westland Row, Abortion is murder for profit. Stop
- Trinity College Dublin, the Holocaust now!
- Ireland.
-
- e-mail: thomas@maths.tcd.ie
-