It's hard to believe it's 2005 reading about the Mater Hospital's decision to stop trials of a new drug which would fight lung cancer because female patients were required to take contraceptives while using it.

The hospital's ethics committee objected to the compulsory use of contraceptives for women who might be 'at risk' of pregnancy during the trials. Jesus fucking Christ. These people are at risk of death, that is the bottom line.

The hospital's ethics committee objects to the use of contraception because it is a catholic run hospital and while the Lord himself may be full of mercy and holy light three fucking cunts on a committee can't see past women taking a little pill to prevent a baby they surely don't want while an insidious disease eats away at their lungs. These people are so filled with Christian goodness they object to people stopping a pregnancy when they should be more concerned with trying to find ways to fight a disease which kills 1 in 3 people in Ireland.

I've known people in my life diagnosed with lung cancer at Easter and by Christmas they're gone despite the best efforts of doctors and hospitals and drugs and chemo and cobalt and every fucking thing under the sun and when they go it hurts. Then you have three fucking absolute wankbags on an ethics committee deciding to prevent a drug which might help those people, might help their family and friends, over something like contraception. It's mindblowing.

Wake up, cunts. It's 2005. Contraception was an issue we all dealt with years ago. Yes, we were backwards in Ireland and contraception wasn't legal here until 1979. Yes, we tried to put some doctor in prison years ago because he prescribed condoms to patients he felt needed them. I still remember the fuss when the Virgin Megastore sold its own brand of jonnies in its record shops. The country was going to go to the dogs then you know. Rubbers and a 12", please. Arf.

But now, as far as I know, no method of contraception is illegal in Ireland so what gives this unholy trio of scuttering shitbags the right to prevent medical care to people who need it - especially when they may not even be catholics? Do they think that if the patients pray really, really hard their cancer will go away? Let's dispense with the fucking mumbo-jumbo, shall we? Fucking cunts.

I should point out that the Mater does good stuff too, their transplantation program is among the best in Europe, but this is quite disgraceful in this day and age. It's not altogether unexpected of course. Despite millions of people dying and contracting AIDS in Africa the church would not condone or encourage the use of condoms which would, when it comes right down to it, save lives and help prevent the spread of a pandemic.

Perhaps if we told the church that moving with the times and 'allowing' the use of contraception might bring people back to mass on Sunday which might mean a nice increase in the collection plates which will let the Nazi Youth pope buy another gold telephone (I wonder do Siemens make a cordless one?). Is it any wonder that people don't go to church when the church is so far out of touch with reality that even Stevie Wonder can see it?

So congratulations - Fr Kevin Doran, Sr Eugene Nolan and John Morgan - you have made a decision which will cost people their lives in the short term and in the long term. The irony of a nun and a priest making a decision about contraception is hardly worth noting but this is the kind of shite we had to put up with for years in Ireland. We had a government but the church ran everything really. I really did think their influence had waned to a point where they were as insignificant as they deserved to be but there's still a bit of life left in the rancid old dragon yet.

I hope the three of them get cancer of every major organ and their genitals and die screaming while I force feed them the pill, shove coils up their arses and make little rubber johnny hats for them, the small-minded, holier-than-thou, puritanical fuckpigs.