And how they fail to recognize that it's the flip side of the same coin.

It never ceases to amaze me how little these people seem to care about the FORCED abortions against people's will occurring in other countries.

No, not at all!

How is assaulting law-abiding people seeking medical care with gory images, shouting insults and obscenities, and playing freaking crying baby sounds on a loudspeaker peaceful?

A recording of a crying baby is supposed to MAKE me want to have a baby? Yeah, no.

I went to Liverpool in December 2012, it cost me €2,000 for the procedure, flights, hotel and missed work (way too stressed to go for the two weeks after I found out I was pregnant and before my procedure). I put some of it on my credit card and it's still not paid back.

Maybe people should organize counter-protests? Not really being hostile to the anti-choice folk, but with kind messages for the women because that will piss them off more. Organize that on days when you know there is going to be a protest, and bam.

An example of how a lot of people believe in the magic Someone Else (a non-existent person who they met once who adopts all these kids):

Anyone wanting to know more about US pro-life funding in Ireland should read this: http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/…

Spot on, all points. The evangelical movement in the US has learned to market itself exceedingly well worldwide, tapping into the basest elements of human nature and putting a holier-than-thou veneer over it.

I've heard a lot of the more virulent anti-choice groups in Great Britain and Ireland are getting money and support from US anti-choice groups, which wouldn't surprise - they've been doing the same thing with anti-gay laws in places like Uganda and Russia.

Perhaps one day I will have a series of postcards printed so that there's something to "exchange": them a toy foetus, me a fact sheet on abortion with the image of that grown woman slumped dead on the floor after having a backyard job.

True, but here in the States there has been a curious, at times uneasy, partnership between radical Protestants and conservative Catholics (and increasingly, Mormons are part of the partnership too)* that promotes anti-abortion, anti-sex ed patriarchal nonsense. In recent years, American Evangelicals and Fundies have…

i love when people are like UR BABY COULDA BEEN DA PRESIDENT AND CURED CANCER AND WAS JESUS

Damn right. And even then, it doesn't work out well - see re Savita Halappanavar.

Bang the fuck on. As a father to a young girl, I can guarantee one thing. They don't know what the word militant means. If they ever do manage to outlaw abortion in this country, I will fucking show them what militant is.

I've already had someone else say that it was about funding by American pro-life groups. It's certainly a complicated issue, but I think all of us here can agree that they can all get fucked. Every last American pro-life group meddling in Northern Ireland and each and every last Northern Irish person harassing these…

But Ireland as a whole is a lot more enlightened than america in that regard. ALOT of the country is in fact pro-choice. Yes a lot of the anti-abortion bs has roots in the catholic foothold in Northern Ireland but ALOT of Catholics are also very pro-choice as are Protestants. I just don't think american evangelism so…

UK needs to update its legislation around buffer zones I think, as this kind of intimidation when women are accessing their RIGHT is shameful.

Well seeing as most of the funding comes for anti-choice groups come from Americans, then yes there are to blame for some of the power the anti-choice movement has over there.