Conversation starts about lives mattering – but what about rights of the unborn?

SIR,

It is to be welcomed that we devoted a week to scrutinising discrimination in our own country, rather than pointing the finger elsewhere.

I believe another positive development was the use of the term ‘discrimination’. We seemed to struggle with the use of ‘racism’, a term often linked to colour of skin, and so we were able to look at the treatment of the traveller community, for example.

There was some confusion with the phrase about lives that matter, and we witnessed demonstrations with the slogan ‘Black Lives Matter’.

Great. Are people saying that All Lives Matter? I am not so sure.

And do we wait for an incident like the one we witnessed from Milwaukee, and then take to the streets?

Did the same people take to the streets to vindicate the rights of the unborn, which I believe is one of the leading causes of division? Are we seeing some kind of sea change in the people who urged the right to destroy pre-born human life? Or do none of them see the contradiction?

And what about the doctors and medical staff who vindicate the rights of all lives and not just the born?

We witnessed what appeared to be a blanket condemnation of the US President for holding up a Bible before a Church, and we had to endure endless lectures about his motives.

At one point it was alleged that people (like myself ) who don’t read the Bible have no idea what is in there.

Yet the President was perfectly right to use the Bible. He has a great record on the rights of the unborn child, and an equally great record in confronting the groups who threaten religious freedom.

Irish media opened a conversation this week. It has a long way to go, Sincerely,

Gerald O’Carroll,

The Green,

Huntsfield,

Dooradoyle,

Limerick.