CAN Eilís Grealy (Letters, February 25) be serious when she suggests that the abortion rate in countries where the procedure is illegal should be measured only by the number of abortions officially reported?

I WISH to respond to the letter from Eilís Grealy headlined ‘Dutch abortion figures understated’ (January 21).

LOUISE CAFFREY (Letters, December 29 incorrectly stated that the Netherlands has one of the lowest abortion rates in the EU.