Or how betrayed she would feel that her own father, a person who is supposed to love and protect her, would become a bully too? She must have felt like absolutely no one would support and protect her. How terribly sad.

She doesn’t know any better. This is a family that teaches their female children that their only worth in life is to breed as many children as they can until they die and service their husband’s needs no matter what. They are considered property in this community. Jim Boob and Michelle probably told the girls that…

I honestly want Warren to stay in the Senate because she has been making a difference. I want her to get the opportunity to make a bigger one and show people what a passionate progressive stateswoman can really do for a cause. Then she can run for president and wipe the floor with everyone.

GOOD.

PREACH. My thoughts exactly.

I seriously hope that rapists and serial rapists everywhere are feeling some pangs of anxiety that they’re about to be arrested for all the rapes they’ve committed in their lives. I hope they’re anxious as fuck and constantly somewhat nauseated and unable to get to sleep.

By derailing the conversation, the pro-choice activist are the ones who voted for yes today and they know exactly what they need to do, no-one is saying that everything is great yet not once have you said anything positive about Ireland legalizing same-sex marriage. But you didnt answer my question about which…

Well the last big abortion refernedum ( in 1992) enshrined the right to life of the unborn into the constitution. Since then a lot has changed but its pretty much impossible to change that clause without another referendum. The government could legislate for abortion under certain circumstances ( A threat to the…

Our governments shitty stance on abortion is pure cowardice, there are shitty loud minority groups like Youth Defence that imply Irish people are against abortion but opinion polls don’t back this up. Basically a number of Irish governments have been to scared to legislate in the area of abortion out of fear of there…

Can you at least look up your facts before you put a downer on this day, no abortion and birth control are not illegal but abortion is so heavly restricted. You are also ignoring that last night on twitter the top trend in Ireland was about how they need to change the law about abortion and how many actvistist there…

Ireland has to vote by referendum to make a change to the constitution. The government could have passed legislation, however, by changing it through a referendum, that means that it cannot be changed without ANOTHER referendum.

I totally get what you're saying about voting on human rights but it means so much that we altered our constitution by a popular vote. We wanted this as a nation. We came out and showed that we did and the No side now have no weight in this country. The rainbow tastes so sweet!

Um, we have birth control. Multiple forms, all reasonably priced. Now the abortion thing, we DO need to sort that one out.

Birth control is not illegal in Ireland and hasn’t been since the 80s

It has to do with the Irish legal system. Any change to the constitution must be voted on by the people under Irish law. Theres no way around it. It was the only way to enshrine protection for same sex unions in the constitution. They could have just legislated for it without a public vote but without that protection…

Birth control is perfectly legal and this victory gives us a much better chance of getting an abortion referendum passed soon.

For those wondering why it was put to vote instead of simply being legislated for. Its because legislation can be changed by the high court. According to Irish law, the only way to fully and permanently protect same sex marriage is to enshrine it in the constitution. Which can only ever be amended by a reffurendum put…

So proud of Ireland today,voted yes myself yesterday.

Well, I don’t expect you to follow provincial Canadian politics at all (although it’s a possibility you’ve heard, as international news outlets were picking it up), but here in the province of Alberta, we just ended a 44-year Conservative dynasty and elected the most left wing option. One of those seats? On election…