Girl in our office (dozen people, mostly in their 30s, men and women) has just started a conversation about abortion. Came from the gender selection law that is being considered at the moment - she wanted to know more about it. We all chatted and I said that I imagined it would be hard to police as you don't really have to give any detailed explanation of why you want an abortion anyway. Girl then went on a bit of a rant about how shocking she thought it was that you can basically just get an abortion on demand. She's from the RoI, which I guess will influence her views. She wasn't exactly anti abortion, just clearly thinks it shouldn't be easy to achieve.
One of the other guys clearly picked up from how I was explaining the process that I've had one, and tried to calm the girl down a bit. But she was very strident. I wish I'd said something more now but, you know, it's work, and I didn't want to get too wound up on a Monday morning at 10.30...
Anyway, I can't help thinking maybe there are better times and places to talk about potentially sensitive issues like abortion (or god knows how many other emotive topics) than in an office full of people whose backgrounds and personalities you don't really know?
This has annoyed me this morning 