Sir, - I think it a shame if the Pro-Life Movement could even contemplate accepting the Government's definition of abortion for the purpose of this referendum.
The simple fact is you cannot say that pregnancy and implantation occurs only in the womb.
Let me point out the medical fact that I have personally delivered by Caesarean section two live, full-term infants, both within the space of one week; and neither of these two infants or placentas was implanted in the womb nor in the mother's reproductive system. Both had placental and cord attachments to the large bowel, appendix and greater momentum.
Both mothers and both infants thrived. Now, I ask your readers, does this not knock the Government's theory and definition of abortion into a cocked hat?
The remarkable phenomenon of abdominal pregnancy, reckoned as one in about 800,000 pregnancies, proves life begins, not as the Government says, at implantation inside the womb, but - like it or not - at the moment of fertilisation, even outside the human reproductive system.
Don't your readers think it would be a great crime for any definition such as that offered by the Government to exclude those remarkable survivors even before they enter the killing fields devised by women and men? - Yours, etc.,
Dr Kevin McCormack, Spawell Road, Wexford.