To the Young People of Ireland

I sent the following letter to the Irish Times, I wonder if it will see print?

Dear Editor,

To the young people of Ireland – if you were born since 1983, the 8th Amendment was for you. Ireland is still one of the safest countries in the world to be pregnant in. Maternal mortality is much lower than in the USA, India, and most other countries where abortion is legal. The young Irish are informed enough to know that. Ireland’s 8th Amendment is validated by developments in the last 30 years - we have 4D ultrasound and fetal surgery and studies which show the detrimental effects of abortion on women such as the Klemetti study of Finnish women in 2012. After 40-plus years of legal abortion in many countries, there are survivors, now grown, real people - do they deserve any hearing? Google ‘abortion survivors network’ to read their stories, backed up by medical records. There’s the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians (PLAGAL); there are former abortion activists turned prolife, Dr. Bernard Nathanson who was converted by watching an ultrasound of an abortion; Norma McCorvey – the ‘Roe’ of Roe vs Wade in 1973. There’s‘And Then There Were None’ a new organization that helps abortion workers find other jobs, founded by Abby Johnson, herself a former Planned Parenthood Director until she witnessed the procedure on ultrasound. Until then, she did not know what abortion really was. Not to mention the numerous organizations helping distressed women in supportive and practical ways – too many to count -  and the films based on testimonies of real women – ‘22 Weeks’ and ‘October Baby’. There’s a film in the making about Dr. Kermit Gosnell. It will be up to you to get informed and to go behind the curtain the mainstream media draws over the prolife side. There’s a whole world of knowledge out there. Keep the 8th! Oh and Hard Cases make Bad Law, as Dr. Alec Bourne found out after he helped get abortion legal in the UK. He tried to put it into reverse before he died. Thank you for reading this, and have a long and happy life!