Pro-life supporters not lacking in compassion

I hope you will permit me to comment on Michael Clifford’s column (Irish Examiner, Apr 21).

He seems to view the attitude of pro-life people to be religiously-inspired, lacking in compassion and extreme.

Of course, just like the Society of St Vincent de Paul’s concern for the poor, some people’s regard for unborn life may be religiously motivated; however, unlike contraception, divorce and homosexuality, it is not a specifically religious issue, though pro-abortion supporters often seek to dismiss it in this way. From a scientific point of view, human life is a continuum from conception to death. It seems to me that, as we have come to value even the life of a convicted multiple murderer, surely we should value the life of an innocent unborn child.