Vast majority of decisions to abort are rational, and always have been

WHAT upsets me most about the Government’s decision to legislate for abortion in Ireland in cases of a risk of death by suicide is how it patronises women.

A woman will no longer be “bad” if she has her pregnancy terminated in Ireland. Now she can be sick or “mad”.

Everybody knows the vast majority of the 4,000-odd Irish women who have abortions every year in the UK are making painful, but rational decisions, because they feel the child inside them would not be born into good circumstances.