Convenience is reason why we use the UK

Once again a platform is afforded to one of your columnists – Ms. Suzanne Harrington in this case – to put before us, with increasingly smug insouciance, a virtual litany of evasions and half truths attempting to justify in the name of “progress” and “compassion” the barbarism that is abortion.

Let it be said; (1) the circumstances of the death of Savita Halapanavar had nothing to do with our laws protecting all human life; the cynical manipulation of that tragedy is another matter, (2) we have a safe maternity/pregnancy service, second to none. Currently figures for abortions in England and Wales under the Abortion Act, 1967, are running at around 190,000 annually, over 97 percent of which are allowed by appeal “to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman”, tokenly administered; in effect on the basis of “quasi-social” indications. This is the level of attrition that has flowed from “progressive” legislation in the UK.

So if we “export” the problem we do so to avail of a heartless and manipulated regime which - excluding situations of a real threat to the life and physical health of the mother - facilitates abortions, for the most part, for reasons related to lifestyles and convenience.