PRESIDENTIAL GENDER

Sir, - What puzzled me about the abortion referendum was the yellow-covered explanatory booklet, "Use your Vote". On page 15, mention was made of the Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy Act, 2002, and in the same sentence I read that "any such Bill shall be signed by the President forthwith upon his being satisfied that the Bill. . ."

This was followed on page 17 by the informative statement: "'Woman' means a female person."

How, then, did she become a he on page 15? - Yours, etc.,

ROSALIND MATTHEWS,

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