Nine things that women say!

I saw this on the wall of a resteraunt toilet and thought it was spot on! Men study hard, women, wince in recognition!

Fine :

This is the word women use to end an argument when they are
right and you need to shut up.

Five Minutes :
If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour.
Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more
minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

Nothing :
This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and
you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end
in fine.

Go Ahead :
This is a dare, not permission. Don’t Do It!

Loud Sigh :
This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement
often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot
and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you
about nothing. (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)

It’s Fine :
This is one of the most dangerous statements a woman can
make to a man. This means she wants to think long and hard before
deciding how and when you will be made to pay for your mistake.

Thanks :
A woman is thanking you, do not question, or Faint. Just say
you’re welcome.

Whatever :
This doesn’t mean “whatever”, this is a woman’s way of saying FUCK YOU!

Don’t worry about it, I’ll do it:
Another dangerous statement, meaning
this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is
now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking ‘What’s
wrong?’
For the woman’s response refer to #3.

ABORTION

The subject of abortion is one which is always controversial and yet always topical. Everybody, male or female, young or old has an opinion. People who support abortion are known as pro choice and people who are against it are known as pro life.
Wikipedia defines the term pro life as “the political and ethical view which maintains that all human beings have the right to life, and that this includes fetuses and embryos“. and it states that “Pro-life individuals generally believe that human life should be valued either from fertilization or implantation until natural death”
It defines Pro-choice as “the political and ethical view that a woman should have complete control over her fertility and pregnancy“ and states that “People who are pro-choice believe that women should have access to safe and legal abortion and, equally, that women should be protected from forced abortions”

The former Mayor of New York city Rudolph Giuliani made headlines recently for his views on abortion, Mr Giuliani, who is pro choice was informed that Archbishop Raymond Burke would refuse to give holy communion to him on the grounds of his beliefs. The Archbishop said that “anyone administering Communion – ordained priest or lay minister – is morally obligated to deny it to Catholic politicians who support an abortion-rights position contrary to church teaching“.
Burke said denial of Communion is not a judgment. “What the state of his soul is is between God and him,”

The laws on abortion are very varied throughout the western world. In the UK it is legal to have an abortion up to 22 weeks into the pregnancy, because of this law 2,000 women every year from Northern Ireland alone fly to the United Kingdom to have the procedure performed. In some parts of the United States, it is legal to have an abortion up to 40 weeks.

According to a June 2007 online poll, in Ireland, 43% support abortion if it is in the best interests of the mother, 73% support it if the pregnancy is the result of a rape, 75% support it if the fetus can’t survive outside the womb and 82% support it if the mother’s life is in danger, 51% remain opposed. The following month, in another online poll, which posed the question “Is it time to legislate for abortion in Ireland?”, a massive 62% said no while a mere 38% said yes.

In the opinion of Dun Laoghaire primary school teacher, Louise McMahon (who works with children on a daily basis but happens to be pro choice) women should have the right to decide what to do with their bodies. She also states that on some occasions the woman’s life could be in danger or her pregnancy may have been the result of a sexual assault. She says “You don‘t know what might have happened, a girl could get raped by a family member and a child should never be born out of hatred” she went on to add “What kind of life would that child have?, imagine he or she finding out how they were conceived, there should be provisions for abortions in certain situations definitely if not just legalizing it altogether”

In a surprising turn she then spoke of a family friend who had been sent to a “Magdalene Sisters” type convent/laundry which was run by nuns, she said “Ireland has come a long way, it wasn‘t that long ago that if a girl became pregnant out of wedlock that a priest would have to bless the house before she could be allowed back into the family home”.

Then having spoken of her role as minister of the Eucharist and soloist in the church choir, her words seemed strangely anti-ecumenical, “The catholic church is far from perfect, it‘s shocking to think that people lived their lives by what the church said up until quite recently and all the while priests were raping young girls, making them go through the emotional duress of having a baby and then taking it away from them and sending it to an orphanage, it‘s really quite sad”

A pertinent question that is often asked is “when does an embryo become a living being?” as most observers would attest pro lifers are against abortion as they see it as the murder of a living being, pro choice campaigners support abortion because they don’t view an embryo as being a living being quite yet. Who is to say when, in the process of pregnancy, a fetus becomes a human being? In years past a phenomenon known as “The Quickening” was said to take place in a woman’s body during pregnancy, this was a feeling of joy said to have been the ensoulment of the child. Some people still believe in this and feel abortion is wrong after the quickening as occurred but not before.

Is Ireland ready to legislate for abortion? Well 62% say no and it looks to remain that way for a time to come.