A chara, - A recent article in The Irish Times detailing the arrest in Spain of doctors performing "gruesome" back-street abortions using rusty instruments to chop up the foetus and vacuum cleaners to suck it out truly was obscene and made for horrific reading.
However, in terms of obscenity, the practical differences between this scenario and what actually goes on in an abortion clinic are negligible. And I just can't make up my mind whether this fact, or people's ignorance of it, is the more obscene. - Is mise,
David Carroll, Castle Street, Dublin 2.