Ireland officially revoked its ban on abortion this week – and its health minister says that under a new law, women won’t have to pay for abortion services in the country. The goal is to ensure access and make sure women aren’t forced to travel for the procedure, Health Minister Simon Harris says.
Irish President Michael D. Higgins signed the abortion referendum bill into law on Tuesday, striking the Eighth Amendment from the books.
It was “an extraordinarily historic day,” Harris said of the repeal, which follows up on a public referendum in May, when an overwhelming majority of voters said more women in Ireland should have access to clinics that perform abortions.
“Yes, it is my intention that the services will be free,” Harris said in response to a reporter’s question about how Ireland will handle medical expenses for abortions.
It’s amazing you can make up any death toll you want for communism and people automatically believe it but if you say “capitalism causes people to die because they simply don’t have access to enough money to pay for necessities” you’re making up a death toll and it’s not capitalism that caused anything.
Yeah, but are there death camps and gulags propping us capitalism?
Yes, literally. Have you heard of prison slave labor or…
getting mad that poorer children come to your wealthy neighborhood on halloween to get nicer candy and trick or treat safely has got to be like in the top 10 rich people arent human funny moments
Let’s be blunt here: rich people get mad that BLACK children come to their neighborhoods to trick or treat safely and get nicer candy. It’s an affront to their white sensibilities that these little black kids want to spend one night having harmless fun in their neighborhood. They want black kids to stay in their own neighborhoods, away from their lily white rich people neighborhoods, and legit get deeply offended they must hand a black child a candy bar.
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