IT is an absurdity to promote abortion in the name of human rights when abortion is by definition a denial of the rights of human life before birth.

THE Supreme Court failed to defend and vindicate the right to life of the three frozen embryos (Roche v Roche, December 15) on the grounds that it judged them not to be “unborn” within the context of article 40.3.3 of the Irish constitution and on the grounds that their biological father objected to the defence and vindication of their right to life.