‘Reproductive health’ means just what it says

YOUR correspondent James McGrath (Irish Examiner letters, August 19) says Irishwomen don’t go to England for abortion on health grounds.

Why, in his view, do they want an abortion, if not on health grounds? His remarks about guilt, and about women putting "career or college" first give a clue these women have sinned, and they want to rid themselves of the inconvenient result of their sin.

That makes his claims about the lack of prejudice in modern Ireland read a little strangely there are no more workhouses for unwed mothers, it's true, and fewer shotgun marriages than there used to be but there are apparently still plenty of street-corner moralists to point the finger at women.