Where’s the abortion lesson in baby’s death?

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.

She says “we need a sex education system that … removes the stigma of abortion”.

YK says “opponents of abortion should ask whether a mother leaving a full-term baby to die in secret is better than a medical procedure in a safe environment where she can receive the necessary counselling”.

The question she poses assumes that the manner in which a child dies somehow impacts on the morality of abortion.

Her vision that a surgical termination is somehow ‘better’ completely misses the point that a just, tolerant society respects the lives of mother and child equally.

MD,

Dublin 15