Letters to the Editor: All ethical viewpoints must be heard

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has presented a danger to freedom of expression, writes one correspondent.

Plans outlined by the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly to progress a Bill that would ban pro-life vigils outside abortion providing facilities, represents a severe danger to fundamental rights of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.

Even Minister Donnelly told the Seanad in February that “we are pushing up against civil liberties when we do this.” Then presumably the problem of intimidatory pro-life protests is so grave as to justify this curbing of fundamental rights?