Reason I support right to life

A number of pro-life referendum posters have disappeared from my area.

One in particular had caught my eye, showing a grainy ultrasound image of a life at a very early stage of development, along with the caption: ‘I am 9 weeks old. I can yawn and kick. Don’t repeal me.’

If the Government’s hopes are realised, life at this level of gestation and beyond could be aborted with impunity under the heading of a basic human right.

This is in spite of having human DNA, two human parents, gender, a beating heart, and a list of human attributes too numerous to mention.

In contrast, the person responsible for removing and prematurely ending the short working life of the inanimate plastic poster outlining those attributes could face the full rigours of the law for attacking the fundamentals of democracy.

While being happy to condemn the removal or destruction of posters by anyone involved in the present debate on the Constitution, I find the idea of deliberately ending the unique and developing life of an innocent in the womb to be far more objectionable.

Posters can be replaced, lives taken cannot. For that reason, I am supporting the right to life of the unborn child and retention of the Eighth Amendment. Catherine Treacy Castletroy, Co Limerick