Separate issues

IN her article headlined ‘The Separation of Church and State’ (Irish Examiner, May 11), Beth Fouhy is agenda-driven on the question of abortion, which is fine, but she should state her colours rather than introduce the red herring about church and state and their supposed separation in America, Ireland, or anywhere else.

It was a shallow treatment of the abortion issue, replete with the usual mantras such as “interfering with a woman’s right to obtain an abortion”, Mario Cuomo as “a Catholic and abortion rights supporter” in the US (never mind the contradiction), and that old chestnut “Catholic lawmakers cannot impose their religious views on the public at large”.

Can we expect a realistic treatment of the church/state debate and the life issue? And keep them separate.