Sir, - While the Government's failure to "fulfil its election pre-election promise to address the issue of abortion" is noted in your Editorial (September 11th), there is no such failure on the part of The Irish Times. No, you are to the fore in the well-orchestrated effort by a few powerful people in the media to push for the legislation of abortion here. Yes, indeed, confront reality: thousands of women are going to England for abortions - totally unnecessarily, as supported in the statistics quoted in the Green Paper.
Abortion is wrong. It is the killing of a baby. With all the scientific evidence now available this can no longer be denied or camouflaged with reference to foetus and zygote. Any hope of The Irish Times taking a principled stand on the issue? After all, what other defenceless creature is game for extermination on the grounds of inconvenience? Would The Irish Times have spoken out against the slaughter of the aborigines of Australia? Or would you have agreed that it was a divisive issue and, since no consensus was possible, and they were being killed anyway, "we must confront reality"? - Yours, etc.,
Mrs Mary Stewart, Ardeskin, Donegal Town.