Debate on abortion

Sir, - One rape victim wrote, "It is like living through your own murder

Sir, - One rape victim wrote, "It is like living through your own murder." The complex issue of abortion comes down to a simple question: Do Bertie Ahern and his entire party really believe that a suicidal 13-year-old rape victim is to be forbidden an abortion, when, on traditional Catholic principles, the early embryo is not even a human being? - Yours, etc.,

Peter De Rosa, Ashford, Co Wicklow.