Sir, - Could someone explain this anomaly to me, please.
If I were a member of an animal rights group, I could picket coursing meetings and hunt meets and hurl abuse and yell and scream at the people involved but I would still be a caring liberal. If I make a peaceful demonstration or dare to speak against the murder of the human baby in the womb, I would be classed as an uncaring fundamentalist, without compassion, for interfering with the rights of women who choose to have their babies aborted.
A few years ago, when legislation was introduced into this country for the sale of contraceptives to over 18s, we were told by the then government that this would reduce considerably unwanted pregnancies, but of course, as in all other countries, the opposite is true.
If 5,000 women are going to England for abortion, one can only conclude that the counselling they are given must be very poor indeed and I wonder if the process of abortion and the manner in which the baby's life is terminated is fully explained. I doubt it very much.
It seems to me that we are living in a mad world when, on the one hand, millions of pre-born babies are being murdered and, on the other hand, scientists are on the verge of `creating' beings by cloning, that is if they have not already started. I understand that cloning has not yet been banned in Ireland. There are few objectors because I think most people are so numbed by the proliferation of horrors in this crazy world that they have given up protesting. - Yours, etc.,
Ballinasloe, Co. Galway.