The Eighth Amendment

Sir, – I refer to the article "Varadkar backs abortion when woman's health is at risk" (January 29), in which, among other things, the Minister for Health says that "life experience and growing up a bit" led him to change his views on abortion.

The grown-up thing to do in life is to learn from the mistakes of others and not repeat them.

In advocating the wider legal availability of abortions in Irish hospitals, which are currently legal in cases of threatened suicide, to now include health grounds and in cases where babies have life-limiting conditions, the Minister should look at the experience of abortion in Britain, where legal abortion on such grounds has led to abortion on demand.

What a horrific prospect. – Yours, etc,

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ELAINE NOONAN,

Glenageary,

Co Dublin.