Failing to protect women

It is disgraceful that the bill supposedly designed to protect women in pregnancy has no protection from rapists.

If fact, the Medical Council of Ireland has also ruled this out completely. It could be argued that those who do not see rape as justifiable reason for a termination are in fact condoning the act of rape. If rape cannot be seen as wrong, then it cannot be denied that anti-abortionists are fundamentalists that will stop at nothing to bolster their own mania.

Maurice Fitzgerald

Shanbally

Co Cork