Sir, - Dr McKenna (July 4th) believes that operations for molar pregnancy or cancer of the cervix are ethical and are abortions. Prof O'Dwyer (July 15th) holds that such operations are ethical but are not abortions. Thus they agree in fundamentals, they are only disputing about the meaning of words. Why, then, all the sound and fury? - Yours, etc., Leslie W. Lucas,
Rosapenna, Downings, Co Donegal.