(July 1, 2014 at 5:05 pm)blackout94 Wrote:(July 1, 2014 at 4:52 pm)pocaracas Wrote: If I remember correctly, blackout, there was a huge effort at the time by the "pro-lifers" to make people vote for the NO option. That's why it was such a close call.
I always felt amazed how you can have half the population (the males) plus another half of the remaining population (women too old to bear children) voting on a subject which doesn't concern them.
The mind boggling nature of a referendum in a democracy!
I think both sides make a huge effort, in my opinion the pro choice campaign were a lot tougher and decisive since they were the ones fighting for legalization, at least from what I can recall. In Spain it was made illegal again by the new prime minister
Remember the part where I'm married to a catholic girl?
I saw how it worked from the other side.... and the typical pictures were circulating in pamphlets against abortion... The ones where you see fetuses being cut to pieces while still inside the woman's belly... something that is only done by the 20th week of gestation... not the 10th, which is what was proposed, back then.
Lies and false information was given to the pro-lifers... The game is always the same, ever since the first religion...
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