Was it a mistake that Una Mullally's article on abortion (Sunday Tribune, 13 December) appeared on a page with the heading 'Editorial Comment, Analysis'? It certainly didn't fall into the latter category; indeed, a page with the heading 'Propaganda, Bias, Nonsense' might have been more apt. As a lecturer and former pregnancy counsellor I find it disturbing that writers with such a blatant lack of research, logic and flaunting such bigotry could be allowed to tackle such a tremendously sensitive topic in your newspaper.


In falling over herself to ridicule the majority-held views of Irish people, she quotes the British Pregnancy Advisory Service CEO who said that "Ireland can only exist as a modern society because of abortion clinics in England" and wrongly states that "the Irish state has for generations ignored this issue".


I think it is fair to say that the Irish state dealt with abortion to such an extent in the past three decades through referenda and various high-profile cases that most Irish citizens reached 'saturation point' with the topic as a result.


And as for Ireland not being modern – what type of modern democracy ignores its own people to copy the laws of other nations? Should we suddenly adopt the death penalty and drop our neutrality just because the US and other nations are seemingly 'more modern'?


Without a shred of supporting evidence to follow, Ms Mullally also quotes the same CEO as saying that "legal abortion... benefits society". I look forward to seeing a future article by the same writer that can adequately prove this statement to be true. In conducting her research (properly), she might find time to interview some of the 'hard cases' who might have perished in a more liberal Ireland: these include the children of single mothers, adoptive and foster parents as well as those born without their full mental or physical capabilities.


Would these living, breathing testimonies to the flipside of abortion agree that a modern society gains by denying them their right to life?


Seamus Lynch


Poulnabanny


Athenry


Co Galway