Commission must protect the unborn child

ACCORDING to media reports, the Irish Human Rights Commission has made a submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination as follows: “That the Government should introduce legislation to define the circumstances in which abortion can currently be legally carried out in Ireland.”

Surely, the mandate of the Human Rights Commission should be broad enough to include the rights of all human beings.

There is a huge contradiction here if the Irish Human Rights Commission is not prepared to advocate the protection of the life of all unborn children from the moment of conception.

From a moral, ethical, and, indeed, scientific viewpoint, it is now well established that the unborn child is a human person and is entitled to be included in all human rights programmes.

Dr Martin O’Donnell

The Turretts

Charleville

Co Cork