It is wrong to deem some babies abortable and others not

The circumstances of a baby’s birth should have absolutely nothing to do with its human rights, writes Victoria White

It is wrong to deem some babies abortable and others not

THIS week in the Irish Examiner, Fergal Malone, the new master of the Rotunda maternity hospital, called for legal change to allow abortion in cases of fatal-foetal abnormality.

To not have been moved when he told Catherine Shanahan “we’ve had parents have their child’s remains sent back by courier, to arrive by DHL” would have required a heart of stone.

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