Who will stand up for the first human right?

IN Evelyn Ring’s report (‘Women’s group aims to shame Government at UN,’ Irish Examiner, July 2), a number of issues were listed, most of them areas of genuine grievance against the Government.

However, the holy grail for many of the listed groups is what they like to term 'reproductive rights' a euphemism for, among other things, the right to freely available abortion.

In the light of our current embryological and general scientific knowledge, human life is clearly a continuum extending from the moment of conception right up to natural death.