These pages are based in the United States
and are protected by the
1st Amendment.
The West
The very fact that you can censor movies in the cinema, on video and on TV
only shows how flawed these old media are.
TV is simply far too easy to control.
Around the world, every dictatorship and oppressor uses state control of TV
to spread government lies and suppress the news.
Across the
unfree world,
state TV is the voice of the oppressor, and the spreader of lies,
just as
Orwell
imagined it would be.
In the disturbing new world of the Internet,
governments everywhere must be longing for the return of TV.
Abortion
I find a difficult question.
I have no problem with the destruction of sperm, eggs, or a newly fertilised egg,
or very early embryos in research.
I do have a problem with the destruction of a viable fetus.
I do have a problem with the destruction of a fetus
that feels pain.
This is about the definition of what life we protect.
Why do we not protect chimpanzee life?
Would we protect Homo erectus life if they had survived? (*)
Would we protect Homo erectus unborn life?
If all living things that ever existed were alive today,
which would we protect?
This
is the same basic question as
animal rights
and vegetarianism.
What right do we have to kill any living thing?
(*) In fact, they nearly did survive!
See
Homo floresiensis.
Or maybe not.
Homo floresiensis may be just
a Homo sapiens individual with microcephaly.
Pro-choice
- In Ireland, despite the 1992 amendment to
Article 40.3.3
of the Constitution,
freedom of information is not guaranteed.
Under the Regulation of Information (Services Outside the State for Termination of Pregnancies) Act
of 1995,
abortion information
(in particular UK phone numbers) can only
be supplied to pregnant women in certain circumstances
(after they have been counselled on the other available options).
This makes the following sites, any of which can be found easily
with a search engine, illegal in Ireland:
- Miscarriage:
- An interesting question is this:
If religious people really believe life begins at conception,
why do they not give names and funerals to miscarriages?
Why does the church not demand funerals and burials for miscarriages?
-
Hope for Healing: Miscarriage and the Dignity of the Human Body
by Andrew J. Sodergren,
discusses the strange treatment by the Catholic church of miscarriage.
It
quotes a critic:
"Look at how you pro-lifers deal with miscarriage. If you really maintain that the unborn are human persons, you would not be so careless and nonchalant about miscarriages. When a woman miscarries, why is the body not retained? Why is the mother not allowed to mourn? Why is there no funeral or burial? These omissions prove the unreasonableness and inconsistency of the pro-life position."
Pro-life
- Abortion alternative clinics
- Adoption
- The Internet can equally deliver information censored on the other side of the issue:
- As I say, I'm not really sure what I believe.
I think if abortion is legal,
the limit should be reduced to maybe
10 weeks,
and
it should be done with an anaesthetic for the fetus.
-
I also think that even if abortion is to be legal, it,
like divorce,
is probably the wrong choice for most people.
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
is the leading known cause of mental retardation in the Western world.
- Atheist pro-lifers, etc.
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