Comment on Sitting on a fence… by richotto

The drawing of publicly acceptable boundries for debate is a well known form of censorship and Waters example was intended to highlight the double standards, comparing how a similar description in a rape case would be dealt with in the media.
There was incidentally another piece of evidence of double standards today when RTE broadcast this afternoon the BCI findings against the Liveline programme in the treatment given to an anti abortion advocate.
Given that the anti abortion position is the the suicide provision would like the Uk be an effective back door to increasingly generally available abortion its at the very least open to question how restricted this system will be.
On the X case referendum the issues were unclear and the pro life side were on either side of the argument, Dana with one interpretation and William Binchy with another for example. The poll was very low and the margin about 1%. I believe that its reasonable now the issue has been clarified to have a referendum and the real centre of gravity can be determined in a fair way rather than in this contrived establishment driven way.