Who needs to see objects that far away?!
Okay, so life is shit for women in Poland.
When Alicja Tysiac became pregnant in February 2000, three eye specialists told her having another baby could put her eyesight at serious risk. But neither the specialists nor her GP would authorise an abortion. After giving birth later that year, Ms Tysiac suffered a retinal haemorrhage and feared she [might] go blind. She now wears glasses with thick powerful lenses but she cannot see objects more than a metre and a half (5ft) away.
Yeah, so? If she didn’t want to go blind she shouldn’t have gotten pregnant! Not in Poland anyway.
Yeah, but, the suffering is all for God’s plan. Really.
When my Polish partner told me abortion was illegal there, I was like, “No, dear. This is the EU now. Women have rights here!”
The I remembered Ireland.
Yeah, but, the pope toppled communism and that’s an atheistic religion. Ergo, abortion is bad.
Don’t forget, this is the kind of regime that the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and other religious leaders would like to impose on secular Western societies. They will talk a lot of bunkum about reason being in tune with the universe, but the effect will be felt by individuals. Indeed, we should look to places like Poland, some Latin American countries, and most Muslim majority countries, to see precisely what the religious think is the appropriate role for religious institutions to play in governance. It’s a scary picture, and yet the Archbishop of Canterbury can think of this in terms of putting reason safely on its ancient foundations. We have nothing to gain but our chains.
Eric, I’m glad my silly attempt at irony in some way brought forth your comment (probably a very small way). I have to say I love reading your book reviews here on B&W. Keep up the good work.
It’s such a pity that Alicja Tyslac missed the ‘boat’ by several years.
The following link gives one great insight into Polish Abortion law.
“The termination of pregnancy was made legal in Poland in 1956. From 1956 to the early 1990’s, abortion was widely accessible, both on medical and social grounds. …[ A]t the beginning of the 90’s, social groups connected with the Catholic Church initiated a campaign against legal abortion.”
http://www.federa.org.pl/english/reports/report00/index.ht
Abortion is seemingly big on the forthcoming second Irish Lisbon Treaty agenda. Although the church has been recently urging the electorate, via media sources, not to worry about voting “yes” – as the latter votes will not affect the Irish abortion law.
Irrespective of Alicja Tysiac winning her EU case it will not change one iota the law in Poland.
Pro-abortionists and gay people who marry, are not only going to be deprived of communion, but also funerals! Well, thank goodness they will only have to die once.
It is so disgraceful that the Catholic church should have the monopoly on funerals.
It irked me somewhat the week-end before last, when the wet-behind-the ears new presenter of the popular institutional Irish Late Late Show, made a goofy issue of funeral rites, when asking Richard Dawkins what his funeral ceremonial plans were going to be, the fact that he was an atheist. The presenter, in his naivete, assumed there was no place for him to go. But then again when Ryan Tubridy asked the audience to put hands up if they believed in God, Richard Dawkins was obviously not surprised when there was a sea of hands in the air. One was given the impression that the very intelligent author was somebody who had come from an alien planet.
Irish/Polish people and get on terrifically well due to the sharing a similar brain-washed Roman Catholic mentality.
Indeed, we should look to places like Poland, some Latin American countries, and most Muslim majority countries, to see precisely what the religious think is the appropriate role for religious institutions to play in governance.
Yes. When the Pope whines about Italians not being Catholic, this is what he means. He means women going blind all for the sake of the precious fetus.
“If she didn’t want to go blind she shouldn’t have gotten pregnant! “
Exactly! She should have masturbated… Oh wait…never mind.
Oh wait… if she did that she would have to go to confession to reveal to the ‘priest’ her ‘disordered action(s). Not a very pleasant thought indeed!
CCC 2352 states:
“Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.” “The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose.” For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of “the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved.”
Not entirely off-topic, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mrwzc should be of interest:
“As a new and damning report into institutional abuse in Ireland’s Catholic state schools is published, reporter Ruth McDonald examines the scandal’s impact on Irish society.”