No pro-lifers at the airports?

■ Pro-life activists tell us they wish to keep the Eighth Amendment to protect Irish babies – but how do they feel about the 13th and 14th amendments?

If pro-life activists are so intent on “saving” these babies, then where were they when the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution were introduced on November 25,

1992? And subsequently signed into law on December 23, 1992?

The 13th Amendment to our Constitution specified that the prohibition of abortion would not limit freedom of travel in and out of the State (“This subsection shall not limit freedom to travel between the State and another state” – Bunreacht na hÉireann).

Why are the pro-lifers not picketing at our airports and ports?

How can they be happy to allow our Government to export these women to commit what they see as ‘murder most foul’? Every day, nine women leave this country to access abortion outside of Ireland and three women import unregulated abortion pills via the internet. Where are the pro-life groups canvassing to stop these Irish abortions?

The 14th Amendment to our Constitution specified that the prohibition of abortion would not limit the right to distribute information about abortion services in foreign countries. (“This subsection shall not limit freedom to obtain or make available, in the State, subject to such conditions as may be laid down by law, information relating to services lawfully available in another state” – Bunreacht na hÉireann.)

These pro-life groups seem perfectly content to allow Irish abortions as long as it does not happen within our country.

If you are OK with women travelling to access abortion outside of Ireland, then your issue isn’t with abortion – your issue is with women and exerting your control over them.

I can’t wait to vote in this referendum and end the years of suffering forced upon women here. Rebecca Clifford

Turloughmore, Co Galway