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Posts Tagged ‘abortion’

Published on: 06 August 2011 by in General Issues
Saturday, August 6th, 2011

One of my best friends in Secondary school was a nun, and she told me that women who had abortions were condemned in hell to sit by a pool of blood, and had to drink from that pool continiously. I must have been 14 or so when she told me that story and yet the visual imagery of women sitting by a pool of blood, drinking blood into infinity is an image that has stuck with me my whole life.   During those same years at Secondary school ...  [Read more]

Published on: 06 August 2011 by in General Issues
Saturday, August 6th, 2011

Abortion. Termination. Right to Choose. No matter how you dress it to suit your sentiments, they’re all synonyms for the same thing: a baby is about to die in the womb. As the abortion debate rages on across the globe, advocates for and against the procedure have largely left one crucial party out of the conversation: the men who are partners in, and equally responsible for the pregnancy. The business of child birth and child rearing has ...  [Read more]

Published on: 10 May 2010 by in General Issues
Monday, May 10th, 2010

She went to the village for the first time in years to visit her extended family. One day she’s home alone and her cousin’s husband enters the room where she is and locks the door. He wants to ‘sleep’ with her. She says to him ‘I’m scared, I haven’t done it before’. He says ‘Don’t worry, it won’t hurt’. 3 weeks after her visit to the village she starts worrying. Her period is two weeks late – normally she is very ...  [Read more]

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