THOSE opposed to destructive research on living human embryos have reason to be aghast with the Government for misrepresenting the significance of last Monday’s vote at the EU council of ministers.

I WISH to reply to Audrey Dillon’s criticism (Irish Examiner letters, January 7) of my letter published on new year’s day in response to Rónán Mullen’s column on the young teenage mother sent to Britain for an abortion by the Midlands Health Board.

MYLES FENLON (Irish Examiner letters, Dec 1) calls Rónán Mullen’s excellent column of December 17 grotesque and obnoxious.

I WAS at the public conference organised by the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction in Dublin Castle recently.

THE TV advertisements in the run-up to World AIDS Day early last month portrayed the huge social and personal tragedy associated with HIV/AIDS in the Third World.