Referendum should be placed on hold

Dear Editor,

No one can say that the Abortion issue / 8th Amendment hasn’t been discussed and debated but becoming pregnant in the first place hasn’t been discussed at all, in fact hasn’t even been mentioned.

Women cannot get pregnant on their own; it is not a virus or a tumour that infects countless women and it is not a disease, but one could be forgiven for thinking that men are obsolete and have nothing to do with pregnancy.

Contraception, precautions, check-ups are recommended for women only.

The Morning After Pill – after what?

The huge numbers of women (n0 men), whom we are told go to England every day for abortions haven’t all been raped nor have they been told that their babies have fatal abnormalities.

These babies are just un- wanted.

They didn’t grow on trees, neither did the women over– shop at the markets, and it is not likely that the women were popping fertility pills so they could have abortions later on.

Sadly the vast majority of pregnancies are the result of loving relationships and then for various reasons the pregnancy is regretted, and that is really where the problem arises.

Seeing that abortion is so necessary for women’s health and safety, and seeing that pregnant women are buying contraceptives on line and putting their lives in danger at home maybe pregnancy should be called self-harming.

Trying to convince women that their bodies are their own and that they want abortion on demand so they can continue self-harming themselves is brain washing and wrong.

The referendum should be put on hold until such time as men and women are educated about procreation, sexual activities that result in pregnancy and respect for women and human life.

We as a nation have drifted into blind ignorance that free sex is a right. It isn’t.

Mary Kelly-White Collooney,