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Marie Stopes: Should abortion be legal in Ireland?

Blogged by James Preece on 9th March 2010

Marie Stopes herself was in to eugenics and in favor of "sterilisation of those totally unfit for parenthood [to] be made an immediate possibility, indeed made compulsory" and when her son married a woman with myopia she cut him out of her will.

The folks at Marie Stopes continue this glorious tradition to this day. On their website they have a poll asking "Should abortion be legal in Ireland?" and above that poll they write...

Woman travelling overseas for abortion, include pregnant teenagers, women who have been raped or in a violent relationship, women whose life would be at risk if they continued with their pregnancy or women whose pregnancy has a foetal abnormality.

In other words, not being a perfect biological specimen should give your mother an excuse to kill you.

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Joe said...

That poll's getting hammered! -

Yes 15% said
No 85% said

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Carolina said...

The poll seems to be gone (or at least, that link no longer reaches it). I wonder what the final results were.

Incidentally, she cut her son off for marrying someone who was nearsighted? Seriously? Wow.

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