WITH no knowledge of the circumstances or facts in the recent discovery of an abandoned baby’s body in a shed in Co Meath, YK (Irish Examiner letters, May 9) presumes the tragedy offers us lessons on the provision of abortion facilities.

IN HER letter (Irish Examiner, May 9), YK says ‘opponents of abortion should ask themselves whether a mother leaving a full-term baby “to die in secret is better than a medical procedure in a safe environment”’.