Readers Blog: Maternity outcomes here not best in world

There is no truth in Gearóid Duffy’s claim that ‘Ireland, and other countries without abortion, have consistently had the best maternity outcomes in the world’ (Irish Examiner, September 19).

Until a couple of years ago, there was a mistaken belief that we had an extraordinarily low

maternity death rate. This is because we only began to collect statistics in 2009.