Readers Blog: Taxpayer funded abortion a step too far

What a double whammy I came across as both outstanding columnists, Daniel McConnell and Michael Clifford, (Irish Examiner, 6 January), yet again put forward the Oireachtas committee spin on the right-to-life, Eighth Amendment, telling us that it is flawed, a failure and the public need to be “educated” into changing their views.

What a double whammy I came across as both outstanding columnists, Daniel McConnell and Michael Clifford, (Irish Examiner, 6 January), yet again put forward the Oireachtas committee spin on the right-to-life, Eighth Amendment, telling us that it is flawed, a failure and the public need to be “educated” into changing their views.

As committees go, it was more like an extended press conference given by the most opinionated advocates of abortion. Its majority report studiously evades the following pertinent facts: