Once more with feeling ... abortion not an issue

IN his letter (September 22), Daniel Harrington of Cóir says “the EU court, not the Irish people, will have the power to decide on important moral issues, such as abortion”.

Cóir seems to think that by repeating this untruth over and over again, it will somehow become true.

Let me spell it out. If Lisbon is ratified, the combined EU treaties will say (as it does currently): “Nothing in the treaty on European Union, or in the treaties establishing the European Communities, or in the treaties or acts modifying or supplementing those treaties, shall affect the application in Ireland of article 40.3.3 of the constitution of Ireland.”