to be offended to hear England called a cesspit ?

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This was said on Woman's Hour on Friday by Alicia Brennan on Friday in a discussion about abortion.
She was speaking for a group called Precious Life.
Am I being hypersensitive ?

I don't think so, it seems like a pretty extreme thing to say. It sounds like she has a certain agenda tho...

Yeah, she's hardly going to be objective...

Of course not.

So, a pro-life nutter calls England a cesspit because abortion is legal?

Nah, I'd find it difficult to get riled up about that.

I assume she meant in the moral sense? Sometimes a certain insult from a certain type of person is actually a compliment. I think this is one of those times.

Don't worry, she's batshit.

It depends on the context really - what aspect of England was she referring to?

I didn't hear it, but if she's rabidly anti-abortion and would like, for instance, all unwillingly pregnant women to be forced to continue the pregnancy, then I'm pretty delighted she considers the current state of affairsin England to be a 'cesspit'.

Presumably she thinks Ireland, where I'm from is a floral-scented paradise for its cowardly, Church-appeasing abortion law, which has resulted in decades of suffering, women's deaths, and some utterly appalling headline-grabbing recent situations.

it certainly isn't language likely to win friends and influence people.