Women need to have their voices heard

A fanatical approach is now being taken towards legislation to clear up the problems that happened in the Savita Hallapanavar case.

The attitude being taken by hardliners is “no abortion in any circumstances whatsoever” — not even rape. This is unworkable and will lead to a situation such as the Galway incident where a woman lost her life because of those who got very carried away with Catholicism and its insistence on one view.

There are obviously Catholic groups in this country that are very well organised and prepared to spend most, if not all, of their time travelling the country to pester and annoy politicians with their ultra-Catholic agenda. These groups mobilise at the behest of the Catholic Hierarchy, and it is clear that other political issues, such as the property tax or water charges, are neither here nor there. The ‘unborn’ is the centrepiece of Irish politics and nothing it seems matters more.