Letter to the Editor: Lessons not learned from failures of sex education

A few decades ago, medical doctor and author John Bradshaw delivered an RTÉ Thomas Davis lecture as part of a series on morality and the law.

While proclaiming himself to be a supporter of what might be called the liberal agenda, he also made the point that it would be disingenuous of him as a doctor not to mention “the effects in Britain and America of the unqualified application to their laws of just such a liberal view in the matters of contraception and abortion”.