Does anybody care?

WELL done on publishing the excellent column by Rónán Mullen on the Midland Health Board taking a 14-year- old girl to England for an abortion.

Thu, 22 Jan, 2004 - 00:00

The Government set up an agency to reduce the numbers travelling from Ireland for abortions. Then the health board, with government funding, takes this reprehensible action.

Does anybody care? I cannot understand why there was no public outrage. I find it hard to believe we have become so hardened that this action is now acceptable in our society.

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