So Louise, where would you set limit on births?

In her feature (Irish Examiner ‘Weekend’, May 7, 2016) Louise O’Neill laments the fact that Ireland’s ‘archaic laws ensure that the life of an unborn foetus is treated as equal to the woman’s, if not more important.’
So Louise, where would you set limit on births?

Given the power ratio of the woman to the unborn child, the law at least gives recognition to the vulnerability of unborn life, whereas Louise would see equality in that context as giving women absolute control, and the unborn having zero rights.

She might spare a thought sometime for abortion opponents who occasionally have to read of those miracle babies who survive early births, while a more advanced pregnancy is being ‘terminated’. Maybe she might tell us sometime where she would set the limit.

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