My taxes shouldn’t pay for morning after pill

As a taxpayer I already have an objection to some of my taxpayer euros going toward allowing medical card holders to receive the so-called ‘morning after pill’ for free on prescription from their GP.

I would, therefore, most certainly object to the suggestion that some of my taxpayer euros should go toward reimbursing pharmacies so that they may provide the morning after pill without charge and without prescription to medical card holders, which the Irish Pharmacy Union would like to see happen (’Call for morning after pill to be available on medical card’, Irish Examiner, Apr 29). The reason I would object to this suggestion is because the morning after pill is an abortifacient, taking its effect after conception has already taken place.

As the conclusive scientific evidence is that life does, indeed, begin at conception, it strikes me as profoundly unethical that we would use taxpayers’ money to snuff out human life once it has begun. For this reason, I could not, in good conscience, endorse some of my tax contribution going toward providing my fellow citizens with such a substance, and inflicting it upon others yet to be born.