DAVID STOREY relates how Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe), now an opponent of abortion on religious grounds, was asked what she would say to those who believed that religion should have nothing to do with the issue (Irish Examiner, February 16).

EARLIER this month, in a Texas courtroom, a motion was filed to re-open Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that made abortion legal in the United States.