A chara, - Although R≤is∅n Ryan-Flood's gender concerns over the abortion issue (December 4th) may have nothing to do with her position at the LSE gender institute, perhaps she might like to consider the following:
Nature expects a higher male mortality rate through infant and childhod illnesses. To compensate for this, more male than female infants are born. Therefore there are more male conceptions than female conceptions. Without seeming to be too obvious, in the matter of life and death abortion is more a male issue than a female issue.
Furthermore, with a few bizarre modern exceptions, no woman is likely to find herself in a situation where her unborn child has been killed without her prior consent or even knowledge. Nor is she likely to suffer the trauma of discovering that she had parented a child who had been killed through abortion without her knowledge.
The discovery that the person she loved and trusted most had arranged and had carried out the death of her unborn child is an agony no woman is likely to know. Neither gender has a monopoly on trauma, stress, depression, betrayal or angst where abortion is concerned.
R≤is∅n Ryan-Flood, Ivana Bacik and others owing their positions and profiles to the so-called feminist agenda may understandably wish to see abortion as a gender issue, but if it did not involve the death of innocent human beings there would be no abortion debate.
The crux of the abortion debate is that some of us believe that it is always wrong to directly and intentionally kill innocent human beings; there are, however, others who don't. - Is mise,
Manus MacMeanmain, B≤thar Sheinleasa, Seantraibh, Baile ┴tha Cliath 9.
