Margaret Hickey wrote (Irish Examiner, April 10) that the upcoming referendum on marriage equality “is about rejecting the 21st century cruelty that denies a child a mother or a father, through surrogacy”. Perhaps Ms Hickey is getting the chance to vote in a different referendum to the rest of us?

I lived in Edinburgh for a number of years, and am married to a Scotsman, but I have no idea how the Scots should vote in tomorrow’s referendum.

I think it is time that the abortion debate which has been raging in this country on and off for 30 years is taken out of the hands of the extremists and taken on by, what I hope is, the rational, compassionate majority of in-betweeners.