The ultimate threat to disabled children

JAIME HYLAND (Irish Examiner letters, July 1) is wrong in his assertion that Rónán Mullen has no evidence to back his statement that parents are coming under pressure to abort children with disabilities.

For at least 25 years women in Britain have been advised that abortion is the proper course for Down’s syndrome babies and those with other severe abnormalities. The significant reduction in the number of Down’s syndrome children in Britain and other European countries is due to policies of aborting them.

I was once at a British postgraduate lecture for GPs where an obstetrician described how he “pitched” a hydrocephalic baby he was delivering “to ensure it wouldn’t survive”. His words.