Sir, - Eimear Coffey (June 12th), in careful if colourful language, refuses, as she puts it, to let the pro-life lobby decide whether she is entitled to make an informed choice on abortion, and she refers to women considering abortion as women deciding "what happens to their own bodies".
Women who see abortion as something done to their own bodies only are seriously mis-informed. They need to be informed that abortion is the deliberate annihilation of another person.
As for the increase in abortions since the passing into law of the 1995 information Act, a simple comparison of before/after statistics proves the baleful effect of that legislation. Maybe Ms Coffey has never been informed of the existence of the advertising industry. Has nobody ever told her that it pays to advertise?
In the area of information, the pro-abortion lobby - pro-choice, how are you - have been inconsistent. On the one hand, the 1995 Information Act is their boasted achievement but on the other hand, they exert themselves to suppress information - on posters, for example - of the effect of abortion on the unborn child.
It is clear that the pro-abortionists cannot endure the facts about abortion. They are in denial, tightly closed to reality. When eventually, as they must, they take down the shutters and engage honestly with the facts, they will find the truth hurtful, but thankfully the hurt will not be fatal. They will survive. - Is mise.
Monica Ni Chearbhaill, Ard na Greine, Sionainn, Co an Chlair.