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I wasn't referring to "medical emergencies".... There was a deliberate campaign to obfuscate the debate as centered on medical emergencies.
I was referring to the countless human and personal tragedies that occurred in the status quo we experienced under the regime of the bishops.
A status quo remember that did not only engender countless personal tragedies in the terms I put in my poem above. Also remembering the ~9K children who “died” in Mother & Baby Homes, the unwed mothers hidden away from society, the 50K babies taken away from their mothers as young as 12-years old, up until 1972 girls as young as 12 could be married, etc.
The above measured out in some type of objective terms in how say we not long ago paid out €800M to 34K survivors of church-run mother and baby homes (not enough). Or how we already paid out €1.5B euro to compensate 15K victims of child sexual abuse in Irish institutions etc.
That was what I was referring to in my post, if it wasn't obvious.
But if you're referring to the debate that occurred during the repeal campaign, the primary "medical" argument was about the best way to work through getting pregnant was to sit down with your GP and work on it that way, not be at the mercy of uninformed opinion regarding the personal and medical circumstances in each individual case.
The legislation set out that for abortions to be performed legally in the country, the involvement of a doctor is strictly required - you must have an initial consultation with an Irish-registered doctor, a doctor must medically certify that the pregnancy is within the legal time limits before a termination can occur, etc.
Those were the arguments. I note you are still unable to deal with the actual arguments and instead have to invent your opponents' arguments, and speak for them, inevitably making them out to be "baby killers" and all the other derogatory stuff.
It's no wonder the 'Yes' campaign won in a landslide. Anyone with a brain would vote against anything the likes of you might say, if for no other reason.