Abortion on demand fear

IT IS a really difficult time for our politicians who are facing into major personal decisions regarding abortion.

They know that the Irish are a very compassionate people; even our animals are protected by anti-cruelty legislation.

When social media starts showing the stark reality of what is happening in the abortion areas of our local hospitals, no “exclusion zone” will be able to hold back the torrent of public revulsion and protest.

An Taoiseach has assured us that abortions will be “rare”. However, we can see that despite the same assurances being given in Britain, one in five of their unborn babies is now aborted. Terms such as “damage to the mental health

of the mother” would need to be very carefully defined in any legislation or we will indeed have abortion on demand.

Good, conscientious TDs are being told “but the people have spoken”. No referendum result, however, can take away the intrinsic right to life which is held by you, me and the child in the womb. Our fervent hope is that each one of our public representatives will vote on the abortion issue in keeping with an informed conscience, rather than in accordance with the diktats of their current political masters. The next generation of Irish citizens is deserving of nothing less.

Eamon Fitzpatrick

Strandhill Road, Co Sligo