IAN KENNEDY,
Sir, - Ivana Bacik (June 27th) claims she is campaigning "for an equal society, in which more choices are open to all". These are fine sounding words, but do they meet the acid test of reality?
Firstly, they implicitly deny the humanity of pre-born persons who obviously have no rights if women have a "right to choose" to end their lives.
Secondly, genuine human rights campaigners such as those who campaigned against slavery and the abuse of children in the workplace, defended or sought to establish the rights of the weak and vulnerable. The pro-choice lobby denies any rights to the most vulnerable.
Science has provided indisputable evidence regarding the humanity of pre-born life. Foetuses, for example, are viable at a far younger age than was previously thought. Yet in spite of all that is known about the foetus, Ivana Bacik would like us to believe that the pre-born are non-entities with no rights - in effect, properties which may be discarded if that is what seems best.
It is a strange equal rights campaign indeed, which echoes the slave trade and the Holocaust in its regard for the weakest of all. - Yours, etc.,
IAN KENNEDY,
Ferrybank,
Waterford.