anyone watching 'Abortion: Ireland's Guilty Secret'?

[peachgirl]

I feel so sad and angry. Those poor women, their stories are so upsetting, having to travel so far at such a time... and the pro-lifer group makes me sick!

Enormouse, I watched it, I agree with other posters it was very well done. Keep bumping into you on other threads today.

I'm not going to get all weird - but you're an absolute star.

wiggles . I was a little worried I'd say something deletion worthy.

No, but the day's still young

Those pro lifers . Life does begin after conception, it's the truth, but I also agree with abortion in certain circumstances. Those pro lifers are children themselves, and haven't got a clue unless it happened to them.

I watched it and thought it was a very well made documentary.

I was surprised at how big the pro-life movement was considering the are protesting in favour of a law that is already in place rather than protesting for change iyswim.

I am essentially pro-life but I do struggle with the issues around complex medical issues in pregnancy and babies conceived in rape. Living in massively broken world means there will always be exceptions to what seems right.

I think 16 year olds are allowed opinions. I don't think anyone can say that they want women to have choice but 16 year olds not to have opinions the two don't really seem compatible. And I think we can all have views on things that we haven't experienced (yes even men can have views on abortion). But there needs to be sensitivity and attempts to emphasize and sometimes this was lacking in the pro-life movement, especially in terms of the pictures of dead babies. If life is sacred (which I believe it is and so do the pro-lifers it seems) we shouldn't be holding pictures of dead life in the high street to make a point.

I felt very sad for Tara, her reasons for having an abortion seemed very superficial, road trip to America, money. But she was obviously hurting and I don't want to judge her, hopefully she ultimately finds peace.

I just watched this. I couldn't believe that a part of Britain could make women suffer like Ireland does.

Although I don't think I could have an abortion I am pro choice. I just can't imagine having to go through what those poor women had to. I was in tears when the doctor was talking. How could they force a women to go through 40 weeks of pregnancy knowing that they baby would die at the end. Surely that's bordering on mental torture.