Readers Blog: Where are pro-life when it comes to homeless?

Miriam Beattie (We should keep the Eighth Amendment, Irish Examiner, September 5) states: “Ireland was once known as the safest place in the world to have a baby”.

Readers Blog: Where are pro-life when it comes to homeless?

She claims that because of the Eighth Amendment — which reduces the worth of a sentient woman to that of a foetus at any point in its development — “our obstetricians had become exceptionally skilled in saving the lives of both mother and unborn baby in the most complicated of situations”.

This is a claim frequently made by those who want Ireland to maintain its constitutional diminution of women’s bodily rights. It is a claim — in and of itself — that is not an outright lie.

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