Issue 79
News: Now I have a better story.
After scouring the Newspeak Dictionary forums for inspiration, I have finally discovered a new news story worth commenting on. In Ireland there is a seventeen-year-old girl (Four months into term, known only as "Miss D") who is pregnant with a child with Anencephaly, (which is basically a big word for "your baby will be born blind, deaf, and unconscious, and will not be able to live outside the womb"). As I am sure the readers may have been able to know by this point, Ireland is deeply Catholic and do not allow abortions unless the mother will otherwise die. Of course, one can assume that she can just travel somewhere else to have it taken care of, but, disturbingly, this is not the case. Before she had the chance to go to the UK to abort, the Health Service Executive issued a court order that actually banned her from leaving the country unless she poses a suicide risk, with the police force asked to enforce the order. She is currently fighting the court order so that she may be allowed to leave the country to terminate her pregnancy. I can understand the fact that a country is so wrapped up in religion that it feels the need to ban an abortion even when it is a foregone conclusion that the fetus cannot survive leaving the womb, even though I disagree intensely with their decision. However, I cannot understand forcing her to stay in the country so she can't take care of it elsewhere. Refusing a person the right to leave the country is something that is unacceptable because it shows too much control over an individual by the state. I actually posed this to my ethics teacher (a devout catholic who insists that abortion causes cancer) and he said this was justified because they were helping save a life even if it would only be for at the very most, for 5 months.
Band Name of the Day: The Fighting The.
Film Idea of the Day: Catch the Wind. A teenaged girl in a Lutheran High School experiences a crisis of faith after taking a class that promises to read the entire Bible over the school year. At the same time, she discovers her homosexuality through a friendship with another student who was almost seduced by a teacher with a fixation on high school aged girls.
Film Review of the Day: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. This film covers Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo covering a motorcycle race and doing insane amounts of drugs. This must be one of the best films I have seen in a while, certainly since I saw A Clockwork Orange over five months ago.
Quote of the Day: "My own feeling in the matter is due to my very firm conviction that to put such a motto on coins, or to use it in any kindred manner, not only does no good but does positive harm, and is in effect irreverence, which comes dangerously close to sacrilege"
_________Theodore Roosevelt.
Link of the Day: Normally, I don't watch The West Wing, but here, I'll make an exception.
New Tract: Fairy Tales. A young boy discovers that the fairy tales his parents brought him up (including God and Jesus) on were true and so he kills a few other young boys. Another inmate attempts to save him and he fails, thus damning him to hell when he is executed. This may be the most insane tract he has done in a while, maybe even since he did Lisa in 1984.
After scouring the Newspeak Dictionary forums for inspiration, I have finally discovered a new news story worth commenting on. In Ireland there is a seventeen-year-old girl (Four months into term, known only as "Miss D") who is pregnant with a child with Anencephaly, (which is basically a big word for "your baby will be born blind, deaf, and unconscious, and will not be able to live outside the womb"). As I am sure the readers may have been able to know by this point, Ireland is deeply Catholic and do not allow abortions unless the mother will otherwise die. Of course, one can assume that she can just travel somewhere else to have it taken care of, but, disturbingly, this is not the case. Before she had the chance to go to the UK to abort, the Health Service Executive issued a court order that actually banned her from leaving the country unless she poses a suicide risk, with the police force asked to enforce the order. She is currently fighting the court order so that she may be allowed to leave the country to terminate her pregnancy. I can understand the fact that a country is so wrapped up in religion that it feels the need to ban an abortion even when it is a foregone conclusion that the fetus cannot survive leaving the womb, even though I disagree intensely with their decision. However, I cannot understand forcing her to stay in the country so she can't take care of it elsewhere. Refusing a person the right to leave the country is something that is unacceptable because it shows too much control over an individual by the state. I actually posed this to my ethics teacher (a devout catholic who insists that abortion causes cancer) and he said this was justified because they were helping save a life even if it would only be for at the very most, for 5 months.
Band Name of the Day: The Fighting The.
Film Idea of the Day: Catch the Wind. A teenaged girl in a Lutheran High School experiences a crisis of faith after taking a class that promises to read the entire Bible over the school year. At the same time, she discovers her homosexuality through a friendship with another student who was almost seduced by a teacher with a fixation on high school aged girls.
Film Review of the Day: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. This film covers Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo covering a motorcycle race and doing insane amounts of drugs. This must be one of the best films I have seen in a while, certainly since I saw A Clockwork Orange over five months ago.
Quote of the Day: "My own feeling in the matter is due to my very firm conviction that to put such a motto on coins, or to use it in any kindred manner, not only does no good but does positive harm, and is in effect irreverence, which comes dangerously close to sacrilege"
_________Theodore Roosevelt.
Link of the Day: Normally, I don't watch The West Wing, but here, I'll make an exception.
New Tract: Fairy Tales. A young boy discovers that the fairy tales his parents brought him up (including God and Jesus) on were true and so he kills a few other young boys. Another inmate attempts to save him and he fails, thus damning him to hell when he is executed. This may be the most insane tract he has done in a while, maybe even since he did Lisa in 1984.
Labels: Abortion, Tract Reviews
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