Rights of unborn ought not be at women’s discretion

At first glance, I thought things were looking up with Victoria White’s article (Irish Examiner, January 7) bearing the title ’It is wrong to deem some babies abortable and others not’.

The opening sentence was even more encouraging. “The circumstances of a baby’s birth should have absolutely nothing to do with its human rights”, she proclaimed, though she didn’t specify what those rights were.

But at least it it implied that the unborn are human, and this humanity is the central plank on which opposition to abortion is based. However, all hopes were in vain.