Okay, WTF

I'm totally studying right now - but I've been thinking about something for the past 15 hours and I need to blog about it. So, I'm taking a quick study break to address said thought.

Last night, after watching Sahara - I checked out my handy RSS feeds for news events that had occurred in the previous two hours, two painfully long hours away from my wired/wireless world - whatever - to the point:

BBC posted an article about abortion laws in Portugal, and more importantly efforts to relax them. The article focuses on the referendum to relax the laws, but I want to talk about why they're so strict to begin with.....

Portugal has the strictest abortion laws in the E.C. - such that you can only have an abortion if you're the victim of rape/incest or for the requisite risks to the health of the mother (to be fair there is a mental health exception). Of course this is consistent with the overwhelmingly Catholic population/influence - but in my mind, it's completely at odds with being a part of the E.C. and a party to the ECHR. I need to further research this - because in my mind if the ECHR has banned discrimination against gays and lesbians in the armed forces - certainly the covenant should uphold a woman's right to control her reproductive capacity......maybe a case hasn't been brought?

I'm totally going to look into this - and report back......b/c I love abortion and it should be safe and legal everywhere - even in churches.....