Madam, - Brid Connolly (Letters, May 17th) draws from her experience with helping women cope with unwanted pregnancies and concludes that "having an abortion is not a positive option. It was simply that it was the less awful, horrific, of two negative options". The mother's other two options to which she refers were giving the child up for adoption or raising him/her herself as a single mum rejected by her family. For whom, exactly, was abortion a "less awful, horrific option"? Surely not the infant. Oh, I forgot. The baby doesn't count. - Yours etc,
TONY ALLWRIGHT,
Killiney,
Co Dublin.