Why focus on one form of child abuse?

ACCORDING to statistics, the average paedophile is a married man with two children. I suspect the problem in Ireland is far more widespread than people think.

Why focus on one form of child abuse?
Mon, 07 Nov, 2005 - 00:00

In addition, we have between 7,000 and 10,000 abortions out of Ireland every year. Surely this, too, is child abuse - and murder?

What about Mary Harney’s assent to 11-year-old girls getting the morning-after pill? Is there not statutory rape involved here?

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