Birth is the “brightline” event marking when the unborn is entitled to the full extent of constitutional rights available to citizens, the State has argued before a seven-judge Supreme Court.

A Supreme Court case gets underway today to decide the extent of the constitutional rights of the unborn.

I hope I can express my strong disagreement with the views of Suzanne Harrington (Irish Examiner, 25/9/17) regarding what she calls “reproductive autonomy”.