Debate on the 8th: Your views on Ireland's most divisive topic

The decision by the all-party Oireachtas committee examining Ireland’s abortion law to recommend the repeal of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution in its present form has prompted many people to write to The Irish Examiner on the subject.

Here is a selection of letters received, some in favour of and some against retaining the amendment to Article 40, which was approved by referendum on September 7, 1983, and signed into law exactly one month later

RETAIN