Flashback to 1983

Sir, – Reading about the unexpected demand for condoms which became available on prescription following the enactment of the the Health (Family Planning) Act 1979 (1983 State papers, Home News, December 27th) brought back memories of my teenage years – not that most of us teenagers required condoms back then!

In particular, I remember having above my bed in boarding school, a poster of Charlie Haughey and a number of other prominent political and religious figures, including the then archbishop of Dublin. The poster showed all these leading male figures to be clearly with child. The caption from memory was “If they could get pregnant, would we have this bill?”

A telling poster, and one I wish I still had a copy of, to remind me of where we were then and whether our journey since has led us for better, or for worse. – Yours, etc,

VANESSA PEARSE,

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