Should ‘abortion’ and ‘rights’ be in the same sentence?
Almost 55m abortions have taken place in the United States since the Roe v Wade case, in 1973, and only 4% of these were for ‘health’ reasons. There are 200m women missing from the world’s population because of gender-based abortion and infanticide. This issue is regularly written about in The Economist and reported on the BBC — why never in Ireland?
A balanced debate does not push one viewpoint and it is not liberal to terminate so many lives. To call for the extension of such practices distorts the meaning of the word ‘rights’. No mother’s life should ever be endangered, but surely we can agree that the unborn are not as disposable as paper tissue.
